U.S. and Afghan officials familiar with the payments said the agency’s main goal in providing the cash has been to maintain access to Karzai and his inner circle and to guarantee the agency’s ...

Officials involved in the discussion say release of the funds is important to stabilise Afghanistan’s banking system.

The two conflicts on Afghanistan’s borders are pushing the already economically weak nation toward bankruptcy and famine. Hostilities between Iran and the United States have affected every country in ...

(Reuters) - Tens of millions of U.S. dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for more than a ...