U.S. missteps in Afghanistan stretch back to the Bush administration's decision to court the warlords.
washingtonpost.com | Karen DeYoung | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
The United States and NATO countries fighting in Afghanistan have told President Hamid Karzai's government that they expect him to remain in office fo...
Giles Slade | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
We have hosted the Olympics more times than any other nation. Even in this bad year, we can show the rest of the world how it's done.
AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
KABUL — Afghanistan has a two-week window to realistically hold any presidential runoff vote before winter sets in, an election official said Th...
Rep. Neil Abercrombie | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
I do not believe that military victory in Afghanistan is simply a matter of reappearing with enough troops and the right military strategy.
Ann Jones | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
The big Afghanistan debate in Washington is not over whether more troops are needed, but just who they should be: Americans or Afghans -- Us or Them.
VOA News | Gary Thomas | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
Official preliminary final totals in Afghanistan's recent presidential election have incumbent president Hamid Karzai the winner, but the election was...
William Bradley | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
Osama bin Laden's lame 9/11 message and Barack Obama's lethal approach in Somalia raise a central question: Are we not in fact much closer to achieving our central goal in Afghanistan than most imagine?
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.17.2009 | Home
Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's incumbent president, has dismissed claims that massive fraud took place during last month's presidential election. Karzai...
New York Times | RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. And SANGAR RAHIMI | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
European Union monitors said Wednesday that about one-third of the votes cast for President Hamid Karzai in the Aug. 20 election are suspicious and sh...
AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
KABUL — Afghan officials issued full preliminary results Wednesday showing President Hamid Karzai got 54.6 percent of the vote in last month's e...
Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
Carter's comments came as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, said the U.S. military would need to send more troops to Afghanistan to battle the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
CP | Jason Straziuso (CP) | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A top American official at the United Nations mission in Afghanistan has temporarily left the country following a disagreement w...
Times Online | James Hider in Kabul | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
Afghanistan's opposition leader has called for a criminal investigation into allegations of massive vote rigging in last month's elections -- and accu...
The Observer | Declan Walsh | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
Five US soldiers were among dozens killed in a wave of violence in Afghanistan as pressure grew on President Hamid Karzai last night to strike a power...
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
Muradi, a prominent and vocal member of the UK's Council of Ex-Muslims, renounced Islam as part of his fight against Islamists -- and as part of his effort to combat "the taboo that comes with such a renunciation."
Michael Winship | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
There can be no denying the story the photo tells. It forces us to confront through a young man's violent death the ugly, bloody reality of a war.
Conn Hallinan | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
In many ways Afghanistan is worse than Vietnam. So, it is increasingly hard to fathom why a seemingly intelligent American administration seems determined to hitch itself to this disaster in the making.
William Bradley | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
Eight years since 9/11. It feels like 18 years, if not 80. So much has changed since then, yet so much is still the same.
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
New research indicates that 80% of Afghanistan now has a permanent Taliban presence and that 97% of the country has "substantial Taliban activity."
nytimes.com | MARK LANDLER and HELENE COOPER | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
WASHINGTON On Monday, as the vote-counting in Afghanistan was nearing an end, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was briefed by the American am...
Norman Solomon | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Should the U.S. government keep destroying Afghanistan in order to "save" it?
AP | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
PARIS — Afghan President Hamid Karzai says in an interview published in France that the United States is attacking him because it wants to him t...
Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
If anti-government violence breaks out in Helmand and other Pashtun regions, there would be absolutely no room to argue against the conclusion that counterinsurgency has failed.
Yahoo! News | Hal Bernton and Hashim Shukoor, McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
KABUL, Afghanistan �" Afghanistan's election results are headed into weeks of limbo as a government commission investigates more than 600 complaints...
Paul Fitzgerald | Posted 09.30.2009 | World