AT WAR: Arrest Of Baradar May Signal Internal Feud
We are blogging the latest news about America's war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Email us at AfPak [at] huffingtonpost.com. Follow Nico on Twitter; fo...
We are blogging the latest news about America's war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Email us at AfPak [at] huffingtonpost.com. Follow Nico on Twitter; fo...
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011
The top United Nations official for Afghanistan has called for direct talks with senior Taliban leaders. Is anyone in Washington listening?
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011
Like every other patriotic American, I want to support our troops. If the Joint Chiefs say our troops need twelve months at home before being sent to Afghanistan, I think we better do what they say.
Foreign Policy | Josh Rogin | Posted 05.25.2011
Kai Eide, the top U.N. official in Afghanistan, was forcibly removed and did not resign voluntarily as he claims, according to his former deputy and "...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011
On September 30th, Peter Galbraith, the highest ranking American, and deputy to U.N. ambassador, Kai Eide, was fired for disclosing Eide's efforts to ...
New York Times | JAMES GLANZ and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
As widespread fraud in the Afghanistan presidential election was becoming clear three months ago, the No. 2 United Nations official in the country, th...
Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 05.25.2011
A coalition government in Afghanstan, while supposedly offering the best of both worlds, tacitly condones an illegitimate election and would require America to broker power among competing personalities.
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL — The top U.N. official in Afghanistan said Friday he will step down early next year after a rocky two-year tenure marked by a fraud-marre...
AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL — The U.N.'s top envoy in Afghanistan denied allegations he did not do enough to prevent or investigate fraud in the country's presidentia...
Gerard Russell | Posted 05.25.2011
Likewise, in foreign policy. Let's say there are two diagnoses for Afghanistan -- one means it has a chance if we do things right. The other means that there's no hope whatever we do.
Los Angeles Times | Laura King | Posted 05.25.2011
Days before the outcome of Afghanistan's contentious presidential vote was expected to be announced, the head of the United Nations mission in the cou...
Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011
What has U.S. invasion and occupation unleashed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan? And how are these wars creating security for U.S. people?
AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL, Afghanistan — The top U.N. official in Afghanistan said U.S. President-elect Barack Obama should resist calls to change strategy in Afgha...
New York Times | KIRK SEMPLE | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL, Afghanistan -- In unusually blunt remarks, the chief of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan warned in an interview this weekend that unle...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011