By ADAM KLASFELD MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism. Signed by President Barack Obama on New Year’s Eve, the 565-page NDAA contains [...]

(AP) KABUL, Afghanistan – An assassin armed with a silenced pistol shot dead a top member of the Afghan peace council Sunday at a traffic intersection in the nation’s capital, police said. The killing strikes another blow to efforts to negotiate a political resolution to the decade-long war. Arsala Rahmani was a former Taliban official [...]

On a surprise visit to Afghanistan, President Obama marked the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Osama bin Laden and announced the signing of a long-term strategic partnership with the Afghan government. In a speech to the U.S. public, Obama said the agreement heralds “a future in which the war ends, and a new chapter [...]

Pashtun truck drivers from the north-west of the country began parking in the well-heeled streets, a short drive from Karachi’s port and oil terminal, in November 2011last year when Islamabad banned the transport of Nato supplies through its territory. The border closure was retaliation for the accidental killing by US forces of 24 Pakistani soldiers. [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — So focused are the Taliban on securing this year’s opium poppy crop — and the support of the farmers tending it — that in the early days of their spring offensive in the south, they are targeting not only the officials trying to eradicate the plants, but also the tractors they use. [...]

In 1999 the US had the opportunity to potentially stop the 9/11 attacks in New York City, but failed due to internal disputes between the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigations and National Security Agency. In that same year the Taliban had settled on a license with an American company, Afghan Wireless Communications, to [...]

(Reuters) – U.S. negotiation efforts with the Taliban have failed and the United Nations should take the lead to optimize the chances of ending almost 11 years of war, a think tank said on Monday. In a blow to hopes of a negotiated end to the war, the Taliban suspended talks with the United States [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan — The American campaign in Afghanistan suffered a double blow Thursday: President Hamid Karzai demanded NATO troops immediately pull out of rural areas in the wake of the killing of 16 civilians, and the Taliban broke off talks with the U.S. The setbacks effectively paralyze the two main tracks for ending the 10-year-old [...]

There is every indication that the end of Britain’s fourth war in Afghanistan will be as politically driven as its disastrous entry was. The Helmand that British troops leave behind after 2014 will be as far from David Cameron’s mind as Basra was from Gordon Brown’s in 2007. It was not a defeat, Mr Brown [...]

As violence against women in Afghanistan spikes to its highest levels since the fall of the Taliban government, the U.S. has become an investor in the country’s informal—tribal—justice system. In this ‘Special Report,’ GlobalPost tells the painful stories of women who have been subjected to the tribal courts’ brand of ‘justice’: unfairly imprisoned, traded like [...]