Allegations of wrongdoing have swirled around Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half brother for years, but this time they are coming from inside the president's own Defense Ministry. The president, who ...

While mourners buried Ahmad Wali Karzai on Wednesday, the fate of the small empire President Hamid Karzai’s half-brother left behind remains very much unsettled. Mr. Karzai was officially the head of ...

The assassination of Ahmad Wali Karzai, a brother of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, in his hometown of Kandahar leaves a potentially dangerous power vacuum in the country’s restive south.

KABUL (Reuters) - Ahmad Wali Karzai, the younger half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and most powerful man in southern Afghanistan, was killed by a close associate on Tuesday. His death ...

In Afghanistan, political retirement is increasingly a matter of murder. A week ago, it was Ahmed Wali Karzai, President Hamid Karzai’s brother and the strongman of Kandahar. On Sunday, it was another ...

WASHINGTON — When Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of heroin hidden beneath concrete blocks in a tractor-trailer outside Kandahar in 2004, the local Afghan commander quickly impounded ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed Tuesday that his powerful half-brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, had been assassinated in one of his Kandahar homes. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for ...

Afghan president attends the burial ceremony of his brother Ahmad Wali Karzai, killed Tuesday by a trusted security guard. Video and image courtesy of Reuters. The killing eliminated a man who had ...