Life, death and the Taliban seeks to enhance America's understanding of Taliban history in Afghanistan and Pakistan. At this crucial time in the U.S.-...
AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
KABUL — The Taliban's reclusive leader ruled out talks with President Hamid Karzai and called on Afghans on Wednesday to break off relations wit...
Brian Vogt | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
While President Obama approaches a decision on America's war strategy in Afghanistan, across the border in Pakistan an equally important battle rages ...
AP | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
KABUL — A remote-controlled bomb planted in a water station exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing six members of a family, includi...
Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
The United States will make $1.3 billion available for a program that rewards Afghanistan's anti-Taliban militias with development money, according to...
Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
If Matthew Hoh could tell you one thing to help you understand the United States' predicament in Afghanistan, it's that the presence of our ground combat troops is not doing anything to defeat al Qaeda.
Jim Calio | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
After years of propping up corrupt and ineffective governments in South Vietnam, the U.S. finally decided to enter into peace talks with the North Vietnamese. The same should happen with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
Already, thousands of our readers have signed a letter and contacted the White House urging a new way forward in Afghanistan. I encourage you to read it and to endorse this message if you have not done so already.
Brent Green | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
U.S. invasions of Vietnam and Afghanistan have eerie similarities. Both had ill-defined military goals, especially exit strategies, making them seemingly endless.
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
The president will put forward his decision on Afghanistan soon. It will involve a troop increase. If progressives stay in full opposition mode, they will exist on the margin of the debate.
Gary Hart | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
The more plausible alternative in Afghanistan is to resume the original limited mission, the one that took us there eight long years ago.
AP | KATHY GANNON and ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
KABUL — For his critics, President Hamid Karzai's inaugural speech Thursday struck all the right notes – sober pledges to get tough on cor...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A blast early Friday killed two police offers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwe...
Gilles Dorronsoro | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
The current strategy could very well fail and result in yet another demand for reinforcements next year. A vigorous debate -- more about strategy than resources -- is needed.
ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...
New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
Success in this region, in the remote mountains near the Afghan border, could have a direct bearing on how many more American troops are ultimately se...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
There is nothing like the convergence of two equally unpleasant scenarios -- in this case the danger in Pakistan and American forces settling further into Afghanistan -- to sharpen a leader's mind.
Conn Hallinan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
McChrystal argues that the current situation is "critical," and that an escalation "will be decisive." But as former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst A.J. Rossmiller says, the war is a stalemate.
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
For all the right's jeremiads, its own brand of political correctness kept it from connecting two crucial dots: how our failing war against terrorists...
William Bradley | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.
Robert Naiman | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome? There is something very Captain R...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and st...
Posted 11.12.2009 | World
ABC News has obtained a video shot by the Taliban that shows their attack on a U.S. outpost in Wanat, Nuristan that killed nine American soldiers on J...
Bruce Wilson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
We're paying to send American troops to Afghanistan and we're also paying Afghans insurgents who will see to it that those troops come back in caskets: a crazed, pointless machinery of death.
Jon Soltz | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
American and NATO service members deserve better than to possibly die fighting an insurgency that even American contractors admit is being funded by the Department of Defense.
GlobalPost | Posted 11.25.2009 | World