KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's feuding presidential candidates agreed Friday to resolve their election dispute and said they would set an inauguration date before the end of August. The breakthrough came as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opened a second…
In our news wrap Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry urged Afghanistan’s opposing presidential candidates to accept results from an ongoing audit of the runoff election. Also, several thousand Palestinians marched in support of Hamas on the final day of…
Afghanistan’s National Election Commission announced that former finance minister Ashraf Ghani is leading former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah in the preliminary results of the presidential run-off elections. The commission acknowledged there had been fraud, and announced it will audit nearly…
Jeffrey Brown is joined by Andrew Wilder of the United States Institute of Peace and Nazif Shahrani of Indiana University to discuss findings of fraud in the Afghan presidential elections, how the results will influence relations with the U.S. and…
Weeks after a presidential runoff election in Afghanistan, uncertainty still reigns over who will be the country’s next leader. Preliminary results were delayed after continued allegations of fraud. Judy Woodruff takes a closer look at the standstill with Sean Carberry…
In our news wrap Friday, Afghan presidential front-runner Abdullah Abdullah narrowly escaped being assassinated when two bombs hit his campaign convoy outside a hotel in Kabul, killing six people. Also, Russian President Vladimir Putin met briefly with Ukrainian President-elect Petro…
The voting in Afghanistan represented the country's first democratic transfer of power since the Taliban was removed from power more than a decade ago.
During a visit to Washington this week, former Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah spoke with Margaret Warner about U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, the security situation and upcoming jirga aimed at bringing former Taliban fighters back into the fold.
Margaret Warner interviews Afghan opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah about President Karzai's leadership and the ongoing war in Afghanistan, more than six months after Abdullah dropped out of the runoff election against the current president.
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