Russia can certainly help the US greatly in Afghanistan. And the price -- ending the NATO encroachment strategy -- may be an inevitable one anyway, and thus perhaps easily paid.
It is now a commonplace -- as a lead article in the New York Times's Week in Review pointed out recently -- that Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empi...
After seven years of war, the international community has failed to create the conditions for a sustainable Afghan state. The reality is that the inte...
Last Saturday night, we were presented two awards by the good people of Sundance. it was the first time an Afghan film had made it there, and the people of Afghanistan were over the moon.
When it takes seven bone-jarring hours to drive just 90 miles over war-scarred dirt roads from Kabul to the troubled Helmand Province in southwest Afg...
Long ago, I learned that you are still the same person when you enter a war zone. You need to do your washing, satisfy your urge to shop for luxuries, meet friends and watch bad TV.
If you are currently living in Kabul, you are residing in a city with a "permanent Taliban presence" according to a new report by The International Co...
Introducing private security contractors -- lightening rods for controversy in the Muslim world -- into an already volatile situation just seems nonsensical.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government has launched an investigation to determine how eight inmates died during an uprising against prison guards...
US intelligence agencies believe that members of Pakistan's spy service, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, helped plan the deadly July 7th bombing of India's embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.