PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Tuesday it would wait until Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited Paris on Friday before deciding whether to speed up the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan.

President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday honored four French troops shot dead by an Afghan man, a killing that rattled France's commitment to a NATO-led war in Afghanistan unpopular among many French.

PARIS/CHARIKAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - France threatened on Friday to pull out early from the NATO-led war in Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on French soldiers, killing four and wounding about 15 others. The killings in the Taghab valley of Afghanistan's eastern Kapisa province were the latest in a series of incidents in which Afghan troops have turned on Western allies ...

President Sarkozy calls Afghan soldier's attack on French trainers "unacceptable," troops may pull out of country early

The U.N.'s new representative to war-torn Afghanistan said Wednesday that he was encouraged by widespread discussion about prospects for making peace with the Taliban.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France suspended military training and assistance for Afghan forces Friday and said he would consider an early withdrawal from Afghanistan after an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French soldiers on a base in eastern Afghanistan.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France suspended military operations in Afghanistan and said he was considering an early pullout of his nation’s forces.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As NATO nations revise their plans for standing up local security forces in Afghanistan, doubts are growing over whether the West will be willing to pay for even a smaller Afghan force seen as key to keeping militants at bay as foreign troops go home. U.S. and NATO officials have been moving toward a decision on a revised target for Afghanistan's fledgling army and police ...

PARIS — An unpopular leader entangled in an unpopular war that he once staunchly defended, President Nicolas Sarkozy is suddenly considering a pullout of French troops from Afghanistan as another kind of campaign approaches: For his own re-election. The killing Friday of four French troops by one of their Afghan trainees upended Sarkozy’s counterterrorism strategy, leading him to immediately ...

An unpopular leader entangled in an unpopular war that he once staunchly defended, President Nicolas Sarkozy is suddenly considering a pullout of French troops from Afghanistan as another kind of campaign approaches: For his own re-election.