Abdul Rashid Doostam: Afghanistan's Damoclean Sword
For Karzai, General Doostam is the only person who can break the unity of the north. And so against the wishes of the U.S. and Turkey, General Doostam came back to Afghanistan.
For Karzai, General Doostam is the only person who can break the unity of the north. And so against the wishes of the U.S. and Turkey, General Doostam came back to Afghanistan.
Derrick Crowe | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
The Bush-era idea that terrorism is a problem to be dealt with through invasion and occupation of foreign lands has led us down a path that ends with our morally culpability for the behavior of a narco-state flush with cash from the opium trade and U.S. taxpayer dollars.
McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay and Tom Lasseter | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
KABUL -- A notorious Afghan warlord accused of allowing the murder of hundreds, if not thousands, of prisoners and then destroying the evidence return...
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
Karzai's approval rating has dropped 60% since he's taken office. Afghans are tired of the corruption and lack of leadership. They loath the warlords who, quite frankly, belong in the Hague not in his cabinet.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
James Carville is now managing the campaign of Ashraf Ghani, a principal challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in next month's election. Yes, t...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials said Friday they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war who human...
McClatchy Washington Bureau | Tom Lasseter | Posted 01.11.2009 | World
DASHT-E LEILI, Afghanistan -- Seven years ago, a convoy of container trucks rumbled across northern Afghanistan loaded with the human cargo of suspec...
Camelia Entekhabi-Fard | Posted 09.26.2009 | World