Gen. John Allen, the top military officer in Afghanistan, told reporters Wednesday that there is no pressing strategic need to reopen supply lines shutdown by the Pakistani government following a cross-border skirmish last November. “The closure … has had no impact on my campaign,” Allen said from the Pentagon briefing…

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon Monday said the international community would continue to cooperate closely with Afghanistan on development and security issues even after NATO withdraws its forces from the country by the end of 2014. “The secretary-general said the Chicago summit was an important milestone that underscored, and that…

Newly-elected French President Francois Hollande met face-to-face Friday with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House.

By Elianna Mintz The international community has so far failed to make long term investments in Afghanistan’s aid and development programs, as humanitarian assistance to the country continues to fall well short of the population’s needs, says the United Nations top humanitarian official. “It’s very hard to say that the…

Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced Sunday that his country’s security forces will take the lead in over 100 new districts, a development that will leave 75 percent of the country’s population under Afghan protection. The announcement marks the third phase in the lead up to the official transfer of security…

Support for the war in Afghanistan appears to be at an all-time low, according to a new AP-GfK poll. Only 27 percent of respondents said that they supported the war while 66 percent said they were opposed. Of the 66 percent, 40 percent said they were strongly against the decade…

Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain both support an agreement reached by President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai to allow U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan until possibly 2024.

President Obama addressed the nation Tuesday evening, telling millions of American viewers that the decade-long war in Afghanistan will soon began a new chapter.

President Obama told a large gathering of American soldiers that the U.S.’s presence in Afghanistan the past decade is not a byproduct of merely wanting to start trouble.

President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have signed a strategic partnership agreement that essentially outlines the relationship that the U.S. and Afghanistan will share starting in 2014.