Karzai leading Afghan vote with 54 percent (AP)

President Obama in Afghanistan on unannounced trip (AP)
AP - President Barack Obama slipped unannounced into dangerous Afghanistan on Friday, one year after widening an ever deadlier war and just days before a pivotal review about the 9-year-plus...

Report: Taliban, Afghan govt in talks to end war (AP)
AP - Secret talks aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan have begun between representatives of the Taliban and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, The Washington Post reported on...

Gates in Afghanistan to meet with Karzai, Petraeus (AP)
AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan's capital Thursday for meetings with President Hamid Karzai and top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus.

Karzai, Clinton wrap up visit in televised meeting (AP)
AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is wrapping up a four-day visit to Washington with a televised give-and-take with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

AP source: Karzai expected to accept he fell short (AP)
AP - U.S. officials expect Afghan President Hamid Karzai to concede on Tuesday that he fell short of the 50 percent vote share in August's election that he needed to win outright, but it was...