Afghan Strategy: Child Rapist Police Return Behind Shield Of US, UK Troops
By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service WASHINGTON, Jul 29 (IPS) - The strategy of the major U.S. and British military offensive in Afghanista...
By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service WASHINGTON, Jul 29 (IPS) - The strategy of the major U.S. and British military offensive in Afghanista...
Sara Schonhardt | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
Afghanistan is not Iraq, but neither is it the "good war" analysts long considered it. With US troops going deeper into Taliban territory, the confusion will grow stronger and the line between soldier and sociologist even thinner.
Posted 08.28.2009 | World
By Nigel Morris and Kim Sengupta | The Independent A majority of the public believes that the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable and British troops sho...
Rani Singh | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
The Huffington Post asked the British Prime Minister for clarification on his stance on Afghanistan.
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
NAWA, Afghanistan — Josh Habib lay in a dirt field, gasping for air. Two days of hiking with Marines through southern Afghanistan's 115-degree h...
Bashir Ahmad Gwakh | Posted 08.18.2009 | Comedy
Adnan Ghalib, ex-boyfriend of Britney Spears, is facing the possibility of being deported to his home country, Afghanistan. Back in his ancestral homeland, a great opportunity is awaiting the former photographer.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
In the aftermath of a US soldier's abduction by Afghan Taliban forces, the US military is disbursing leaflets in two towns near particularly dangerous...
True/Slant | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
Here in Kabul, the poor live in unimaginably squalid conditions and the rich live like kings. Kings in very ugly castles. We call them Poppy Palaces ...
Washington Post | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
U.S. Marines pushing deeper into Taliban territory in Afghanistan's Helmand River Valley are short of basic equipment and supplies ranging from radios...
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
Karzai has shown great political wile in the past year, sugaring up policies, revving up his campaign, maneuvering like a man possessed: he is determined to keep the presidency.
Christian Avard | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
Huffington Post caught up with Afghanistan experts Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald and discussed recent developments in Afghanistan. Here's what they had to say.
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
NAWA, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbatt...
AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
KABUL — An American soldier, who disappeared after walking off his base in eastern Afghanistan with three Afghan counterparts, is believed captu...
Huffington Post Contributors | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
By Dana Freyer and Suzanne Thompson It's been several days since our plane touched down the runway at Kennedy. We're still reeling in shock and awe....
GlobalPost | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
On the ground in Afghanistan A GlobalPost Passport Conference Call Nearly eight years after the U.S. invasion in the wake of 9/11, Afghanistan ha...
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
In a country where little girls are attacked for going to school, Shahla Atta has a very good chance of inspiring hatred and a notion of revenge. That's a high price to pay for standing in an election you have no chance of winning.
AFP | Posted 07.23.2009 | World
Pakistan's offensive against Taleban militants has won praise from Washington but may bring little benefit to US forces in neighboring Afghanistan, ex...
Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
The central focus for the U.S. military now is "Afghanization" of the war. The exit strategy is not winning the war but the Afghans winning the war.
Huffington Post Contributors | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
By Isobel Coleman and Masuda Sultan The war in Afghanistan will never be won by military power alone. Ultimately, success depends on gaining the supp...
Diane Tucker | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
"Watching young girls with only one mobile phone in the house debate about who to cast that one vote for -- it was pretty powerful. It wasn't a presidential election, but it was the idea that these girls had a role to play..."
Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Conditions in Afghanistan are acutely compartmentalized. Reports from one village can be bright and optimistic while another locale is rife with atrocities towards women and girls.
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Steps taken over the next 18 months to defeat the Taliban and other extremists will ultimately decide whether the war in Afghanista...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
KABUL — U.S. deaths in Afghanistan have risen to 65 so far this year, up from 36 over the first five months of 2008 _ though U.S. and coalition ...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The Army general chosen to take over as top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan told senators Tuesday he believes the ...
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
The insurgents that the Pakistani and U.S. forces are battling are various fronts of poor, largely uneducated men doing what their ancestors have done for centuries: defending the Pashtun way.
Inter Press Service | Posted 08.29.2009 | World