Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a top U.S. official accused each other's countries of having ulterior motives in Afghanistan during separate meetings with Afghan officials on Wednesday.
A Canadian diplomat with extensive experience in Afghanistan says she raised the possibility that detainees transferred from Canadian to Afghan custody were at risk of torture back in 2005, but her concerns were ignored.
The Canadian government began formulating a plan for how to deal with accusations of torture of prisoners in Afghanistan as early as March 2007 -months before such allegations first came up in the media - a document obtained by CBC News suggests.
The Conservative government’s decision to appoint a retired judge to rule on documents related to Afghanistan detainees does not go far enough, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said Monday.
U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates has arrived in Afghanistan and praised the NATO-led counter-insurgency success in reclaiming the city of Marjah, but stopped short of saying the war is at a turning point.
The NATO mission in Afghanistan is going to get harder before it gets easier, one of America's top generals told a Canadian military conference Thursday.
The Bloc Quebecois believes Tory ministers may be hiding behind Canada’s national security laws to cover wrongdoing in Afghanistan and the time has come to hold Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government to account.
This summer's fighting season in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province could be a tipping point for success, says one of Canada's top military officials there.
The Conservative government is pledging to quickly resurrect the special Commons committee on Afghanistan once Parliament returns next week.
The impending exit of Dutch troops from Afghanistan won’t affect the war effort, a top military planner in the country’s restive south said Wednesday.
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