Nato has promised a full investigation into an air strike on two fuel tankers that killed up to 90 people in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province. The alliance said many Taliban insurgents who had hijacked the tankers were killed but it admitted it had reports of many civilian casualties. The Nato-led forces said they regretted... More

An American service member died in a bomb blast in Afghanistan on Friday, making August the deadliest month of the eight-year war for U.S. forces. The service member’s vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the east, NATO forces said. U.S. forces spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias confirmed the nationality but did not provide further... More

Afghanistan’s Electoral Complaints Commission has received more than 2,000 complaints of fraud or abuse in last week’s disputed presidential election, with 270 now listed as serious enough to affect the result, it said on Friday. More than a week after the election, Afghanistan remains in a state of political limbo, with... More

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is leading by just two percent, according to official, partial election results five days after millions of voters braved Taliban threats to cast ballots.  Mr. Karzai has 40.6 percent of votes tabulated, while his closest challenger has 38.7 percent. Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission... More

Prime Minister Gordon Brown dismissed remarks by one of his ministers Wednesday that Britain does not have enough helicopters in Afghanistan, as he sought to move past a damaging row over resources. Brown said the remarks to a newspaper by outgoing junior Foreign Office minister Lord Mark Malloch-Brown had been misrepresented and... More

Barack Obama holds talks today with leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan in Washington, in the midst of deepening American growing anxiety about the Taliban threat in the region. Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. administration’s special representative for the region, the Congress said yesterday that the United States’ most... More