KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A wedding was called off because international troops killed the groom. A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a p...
AP | ELENA BECATOROS and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
KABUL — The killing of five British troops by a rogue Afghan policeman underlines concerns about training and discipline within the ranks and po...
Abdulhadi Hairan | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
Everyone here is impatient to know the outcome of the much-discussed, controversial Afghan elections, but two months have passed and still no one has a clue about the real situation.
Wall Street Journal | ANAND GOPAL | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
KABUL -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai may not accept the results of a vote recount from the summer's general election, officials from his campaign hi...
AP | LORI HINNANT | Posted 11.29.2009 | World
KABUL — Taliban militants are sowing fear along Afghanistan's highways with stepped-up checkpoints, hijackings and bombs – including one T...
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners.
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Their stories, as revealed in publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection whatsoever to international terrorism.
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 ...
AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A cluster of vehicle bombs detonated simultaneously Tuesday in the Taliban's spiritual homeland near a foreign-owned con...
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.
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.
Patrick Barry | Posted 09.20.2009 | World
With the Afghan elections having taken place today amidst extraordinarily difficult circumstances, I thought I would offer up a few things to keep in mind when reading the coverage.
Katya Wachtel | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
This is the story of one of the thousands of silhouettes who roam war-zones every day so that we, thousands of miles away, can grasp what is happening on the front-line of wars that affect life on this continent too.
Erica Gaston | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
With Taliban control present in large swaths of Afghanistan, the question is less where is this situation going, but where has it already gone? And the critical follow-up: Is there a way to turn it around?
AP | MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and NOOR KHAN | Posted 09.06.2009 | World
KABUL — Four U.S. Marines were killed Thursday when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in western Afghanistan, driving up Western military dea...
Malou Innocent | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
Afghanistan is not a winnable war by any stretch of the imagination.
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
KABUL — A roadside bomb killed four American troops in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, driving the July death toll for U.S. forces to the highest...
AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai accused Afghan guards working for U.S. coalition forces of killing a provincial police chief and ...
Quqnoos.com | Posted 03.30.2009 | World
Residents of Kandahar province say that lack of job opportunities is the main reason that some youths in the province join the Taliban. ...
AP | Posted 01.26.2009 | World
KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. coalition said Friday its forces killed 11 Taliban militants, including the leader of a bomb-making cell, during a...
Patrick Barry | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
Introducing private security contractors -- lightening rods for controversy in the Muslim world -- into an already volatile situation just seems nonsensical.
Andy Worthington | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
In an attempt to separate fact from fiction, I'd like to offer my advice, based on the three years I have spent studying Guantanamo in unprecedented detail.
New York Times | CARLOTTA GALL | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
The Taliban bomber calmly parked a white fuel tanker near the prison gates of this city one evening in June, then jumped down from the cab and let out...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces killed more than 15 insurgents during a hunt for inmates who fled prison after a sophi...
AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver in southern Afghanistan's largest city early Saturday, ...
AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 11.25.2009 | World