WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Tackling lingering issues over corruption in the Afghan government will not happen overnight, said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in what may have been their final meeting, Friday discussed progress to rebuild Afghanistan.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, visiting Afghanistan Wednesday, apologized for the deaths of Afghan citizens from recent U.S. and allied airstrikes.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Four coalition force soldiers and an Afghan national died Wednesday in a roadside bombing in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has returned to Afghanistan for his second visit to Kabul claiming progress was being made in the war-torn country.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Kabul Tuesday for talks about the Taliban insurgency with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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UNITED NATIONS, June 13 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday congratulated Hamid Karzai, chairman of Afghanistan's Interim Administration, on his election to serve as the country' president. He also welcomed "the enthusiastic embrace of this democratic process by the Afgha
