In a wide-ranging interview with Radio Free Afghanistan, John Bass, U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan, he reflects on the prospects and challenges to peace and security in Afghanistan.
One of Afghanistan’s most powerful leaders says his country plays a central role in preventing terrorist groups from threatening regional and global security.
Ahmad Masud was 12 years old when his father, the legendary anti-Taliban military commander known as the "Lion of Panjshir," was killed by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers in northern Afghanistan on September 9, 2001.
The former Afghan president has called on his country’s national unity government to convene a traditional Loya Jirga, or grand assembly, to seek popular legitimacy and debate the country’s political future.
The special representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan has urged unity among Afghan leaders for their country to be successful in trying times.
Tom Malinowski says Afghanistan must face its past before being able to move forward on building trust with the public and supporting human rights.
President Hamid Karzai has announced seven areas in which Afghan forces will take over security duties, the first step toward a NATO-backed goal of having Afghan police and soldiers take control of security throughout the country by 2014.
As reports of voting irregularities continue to pile up, casting a shadow over the country's still-untallied presidential election, key European countries have called for an international conference to discuss Afghanistan's future.
