New York Times Topic:Afghanistan

The Taliban announced the opening of a political office in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday and said they were prepared to talk, raising hopes for a break in long-stalled peace efforts.

An explosion heard across Kabul on Tuesday morning appeared aimed at killing a prominent ethnic Hazara politician as he was traveling in his armored convoy.

A warlord turned politician and a provincial governor gave differing accounts of a meeting that turned violent at the governor’s home in northern Afghanistan.

A lesson in tough love from American military mentors is proving costly in lives and limbs as Afghan troops seek to demonstrate their self-reliance by the planned NATO withdrawal in 2014.

Senator Bob Corker announced Monday that he was putting a hold on the aid until the until the Obama administration explains the rationale behind these bags of cash being delivered to President Hamid Karzai.

Tim Hsia and Jared Sperli write that the next few decades will be dominated by advancements in software and hardware (cyber and robotics, including drones) just as the last decade was dominated by counterinsurgency.

The foreigners are mostly gone from Sangin District in the southern Taliban heartland, and its fate is up to the Afghans.

A military judge said Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s claim — that he had carried out the shooting rampage at Fort Hood to protect Taliban leaders from American soldiers — had no merit.

Support from House Republicans for a Massachusetts liberal’s measure to end combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of the year is a sign of changing sentiments.

A doctor was attacked and stoned because he and his female patient had been found in an examining room without a chaperon, Afghan officials said.

Metropolitan Diary: A Lexington Avenue coffee vendor turned his cart over to his cousin while he returned to Afghanistan.

The attack killed at least 17 people and came just hours after the top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan said militants were willing to talk about lowering civilian deaths.

On Monday, a four-hour firefight at the airport left only the suicide bombers dead, and a police officer was killed in an attack of the provincial council building on Monday.

Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked Kabul International Airport before dawn on Monday, Afghan officials said.

At least five heavily armed insurgents were engaged in an hours-long gunbattle with security forces near Afghanistan's main airport Monday after they apparently tried to attack NATO's airport headquarters with rocket-propelled grenades, assault rifles and at least one large bomb, the army and police said.

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan demanded the transfer of up to 90 Afghan detainees being held at a British base, saying the detention violates Afghan law.

A suicide attacker seeking an audience with Afghanistan’s spy chief, Asadullah Khalid, used a body-cavity bomb after being strip searched.

In one attack, an Afghan soldier opened fire on international troops serving with him in eastern Afghanistan, officials said, killing two American soldiers and a civilian. In the second attack, an Italian soldier was killed when a grenade was thrown at him.

The Georgian forces operate in perhaps the most dangerous part of the country, helping to fill a void left by United States troops who have been pulling out.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the figure at the center of the worst American war crime in recent memory, admitted for the first time deliberately killing 16 Afghan civilians, most of them women and children.