Dec 04 Bonn Talks on Afghan Future Near Final Stages Four Afghan factions Tuesday agreed on a U.N.-brokered plan for an interim government and submitted the names of potential ministers. Continue reading
Dec 03 Strikes Concentrate on Tora Bora, Kandahar Amid heavy U.S. airstrikes, anti-Taliban troops battled for control of the airport outside the southern city of Kandahar. Meanwhile in the north, factional fighting prompted the United Nations to pull out of the region. Continue reading
Dec 03 Profile: Hamid Karzai By PBS News Hour Hamid Karzai, a 44-year-old Pashtun tribal leader, was sworn in Dec. 22 to lead Afghanistan's interim government -- the country's first official post-Taliban ruling body. Continue reading
Nov 30 Afghan Talks Advance Amid Ethnic, Political Tensions By Admin In a sign of how difficult it will be to form a post-Taliban government, the head of the Northern Alliance in Kabul rejected some key points devised at the Bonn meeting and an ethnic Pashtun representative walked out of the… Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch Afghanistan’s Future Margaret Warner examines the ongoing talks about Afghanistan's political future with Steven Erlanger, Berlin bureau chief for the New York Times. Continue watching
Nov 30 Watch Afghan Battles On the 55th day of U.S. strikes on Afghanistan, Independent Television News reports on the military and humanitarian situation there, and Kwame Holman reports on the Pentagon assessment of the Afghan campaign. Continue watching
Nov 29 Afghan Factions Agree to Form Interim Parliament By Admin In the third day of negotiations, the Northern Alliance dropped its objection to international peacekeeping forces and agreed to form an interim national parliament. Continue reading
Nov 29 Pentagon Denies Massacre Reports; Struggle for Kandahar Intensifies By Admin As more U.S. ground troops move into Afghanistan, the Pentagon is trying to clarify reports of a massacre in southeastern Afghanistan and anti-Taliban troop movements toward Kandahar. Continue reading
Nov 28 Afghan Talks Touch on Security, Interim Government By Admin The Northern Alliance today rejected the idea of sending an international peacekeeping mission to Afghanistan once the Taliban is defeated. Continue reading
Nov 28 CIA Confirms American Killed in Afghan Prison Uprising By Admin Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet today confirmed the death of a CIA officer during a bloody prison uprising near the Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Continue reading