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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 09.11.2009 | 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 09.13.2009 | 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 09.09.2009 | 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...
Michael Brenner | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
Celebrated at first by Obama on the White House lawn as a signal success marking the country's progress on the road to democracy, the Afghan election now looks like a monkey wrench thrown into the already stuttering engine of our mission there.
Reuters | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission has received more than 2,000 complaints of fraud or abuse in last week's disputed pres...
guardian.co.uk | Jon Boone in Kabul | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
The United Nations is planning to host an international summit on the future of Afghanistan for the first time in Kabul as an attempt to bestow credib...
BBC NEWS | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
The BBC has learned that the US special envoy to Afghanistan has had what has been described as "an explosive meeting" with President Hamid Karzai ove...
nytimes.com | JEAN MacKENZIE | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
The haste with which U.N. Special Representative Kai Eide held a press conference to say that Aug. 20 was "a good day for Afghanistan" merely served t...
Camelia Entekhabi-Fard | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
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.
AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
KABUL — President Hamid Karzai has extended his lead over his top challenger in Afghanistan's presidential election under the latest vote result...
The New York Times | TAIMOOR SHAH | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A huge bomb detonated on Tuesday night in a part of Kandahar where international aid agencies and United Nations offices are ...
The Independent | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
By Kim Sengupta | The Independent With the results of Afghanistan's presidential election expected later today, supporters of the opposition leader, ...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
KABUL — President Hamid Karzai and his main rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, were running virtually even Tuesday in the first f...
The New York Times | CARLOTTA GALL | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai has won reelection with a clear mandate, garnering 68 percent of the vote in last week's presidential ele...
Derrick Crowe | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
After the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Fahim became first a defense minister and then vice president of Afghanistan. Prior to that, he was a senior commander of the Jamiat-e-Islami militia.
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
KABUL — Both main candidates for Afghan president claimed to be ahead Friday after an election marred by violence, spotty turnout and fraud alle...
William Bradley | Posted 09.20.2009 | World
The Obama administration should sigh with a sense of relief after the election in Afghanistan -- the Taliban failed in their threat to halt the election, and were unable to pull off any of the promised attacks.
Joseph Freeman | Posted 09.20.2009 | Eyes & Ears
Citizens aren't usually forced to divide their attention between a groundbreaking election and nine decades of self-determination. But we are talking about Afghanistan here.
Christopher Mailander | Posted 09.20.2009 | World
The Afghanistan election has made one thing clear: President Karzai is a master. He is a master in the art of the deal.
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Conn Hallinan | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics