Student Protests in East Afghanistan Condemn Effort to Extend US Occupation | Announcement of Loya Jirga decision met with scorn

NATO-led forces shot and killed two Afghan policemen and wounded three others at a checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan. When Afghan police, funded and trained by NATO forces to fight a ten-year long insurgency in Afghanistan, asked a convoy of NATO soldiers...

An assembly of tribal elders in Afghanistan has agreed to a long-term security deal with the U.S. but is imposing some conditions, including an end to night raid operations and a demand to hand over Afghan detainees in U.S. custody. The traditional council of 2,000...

At a meeting on Wednesday, President Hamid Karzai demanded an end to night raids - U.S. military operations in which Afghan homes are raided in the middle of the night - as one of the conditions for a security partnership with the U.S. that would keep American troops...

About 2,000 Afghan elders will gather this week for a loya jirga, or grand council, with President Hamid Karzai, who is seeking support for a security partnership with the U.S. that would keep American troops in Afghanistan for a decade past 2014. The council will...