... elections Hamid Karzai Ashraf Ghani Abdullah Abdullah Barack Obama Pakistan George Bush Taliban Mullah Omar al-Qaeda Islamic State China 136 What divides Afghans more than ethnicity or ideology is an unwillingness to share power and a winner-takes-all approach to politics. Afghanistan...

... Karzai Taliban United States Britain Soviet Union Pakistan India withdrawal 123 Afghanistan s future looks ever more unpre-dictable as international forces now in the country move toward a planned drawdown in 2014. Recent widespread riots over Koran burn- ings and fury over a US soldier s...

... Karzai, who had been named interim chairman of the Afghan Interim Authority at an international conference in Bonn, Germany. Karzai s group had moved toward Kandahar from the north. The other, led by Gul Agha Shirzai, had moved on the city from the south. Karzai had selected Mullah Naqib to lead nego...

...J Alexander Thier Even if all essential parties are interested in a negotiated settlement, getting to yes is no sure thing. © 2010 Current History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California Afghanistan Hamid Karzai Taliban Pakistan United States Mullah...

... far the results indicate that governments and international institutions are not up to the job. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California United States Afghanistan Bonn Agreement Taliban Marshall Fahim Pakistan Harmid Karzai Ahmad...

... Dr. Abdullah Abdullah serves as minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Chairman Hamid Karzai. Abdullah, who was a close aide to Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, previously served as spokesman, un representative, and deputy foreign minister for the pre-Taliban...

... Central Asia Hamid Karzai Kabul mujahideen September Taliban terrorism United Nations September 11 revealed the dangers of allowing so-called humanitarian emer- gencies or failed states to fester not only to neighboring countries but to the world. An American administration that came to power...