By CONSTANT BRAND, Associated Press The U.S. will keep a close eye on Iran’s involvement in Afghanistan following reports that Taliban insurgents used Iranian-made weapons against NATO forces, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. Richard Boucher, Assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, told reporters that Washington would …

AFP – UN chief Ban Ki-moon expressed distress Tuesday over the deaths of five UN contractors in a bomb attack in Afghanistan, as well over mounting civilian casualties in the country. “The secretary general was deeply distressed to learn of the fatal incident which occurred earlier this morning, when a …

By Raju Gopalakrishnan, Reuters When U.S.-led forces defeated the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan in 2001, the Hazaras, a tribe living in the central mountains, cheered the loudest. The mostly Shi’ite Hazaras had been oppressed by the Sunni rulers in Kabul through centuries of tumultuous Afghan history. But when the strictly …