The first U.S. government official to formally resign his post because of objections to America's course in Afghanistan makes a compelling case that America has lost its strategic sensibilities in this war.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
I am drawing together here the stories of six men who, nearly eight years after their wrongful and mistaken capture, are finally free from Guantánamo, even if an uncertain future awaits them.
Global Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
By Iason Athanasiadis ISTANBUL, Turkey -- The intensifying conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan has claimed considerable collateral damage, includ...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.26.2009 | World
The path out of the Afghan quagmire lies in making the Afghan tribes the cutting blade of the strategy, not the US forces or the Afghan National Army.
AP | ROBERT H. REID and KATHY GANNON | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
KABUL — President Hamid Karzai promised to stamp out corruption. The image suggested otherwise. Standing at Karzai's side on Tuesday were his tw...
Posted 11.02.2009 | Media
War correspondent Michael Yon, currently in Afghanistan, reports on his Twitter that, according to his sources, the New York Times and its associates ...
Doug Bandow | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
He should not ask, is Afghanistan winnable? Rather, the right question is what should the U.S. attempt to achieve?
AP | Posted 10.31.2009 | Home
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Abdullah Abdullah's call for a boycott of next weekend's runoff election in Afghanist...
Jenifer Fox | Posted 11.02.2009 | Impact
Many believe schools are the answer to Afghanistan's problems. But giving them second-rate education because it is better than none at all is naive at best and arrogant at worst.
washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut and Greg Jaffe | Posted 10.31.2009 | World
President Obama has asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late F...
AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
SHERWANGAI, Pakistan — Pakistani soldiers battling their way into a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border have seized passports that may be...
nytimes.com | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
Dispatching more troops to Afghanistan would be a monumental bet and probably a bad one, most likely a waste of lives and resources that might simply ...
Kit Gallant | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
Is it not ludicrous to imagine that adding soldiers is the appropriate method for achieving our (vague) goals, given that our problems clearly don't stem from a military inferiority?
William Bradley | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
We can't afford to build a nation in Afghanistan. We have one reasonable goal there, and everything else, no matter how seemingly noble it may or may not be, is a luxury.
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
When you massively intervene in a country as much as the U.S. has in Afghanistan, you can't responsibly just walk away. We must lead with what works -- development.
nytimes.com | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
WASHINGTON - Even as the Pakistani government plays down the American role in its military operations in Taliban-controlled areas along the border wit...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
Afghanistan is not Iraq. Unlike the Sunni Awakening, when Iraqi tribe members took up arms against al-Qaeda and foreign insurgents, the Taliban are an integral part of Afghanistan, not foreign fighters.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Congresswoman Barbara Lee gained international acclaim for being the only member in Congress who courageously voted against the authorization of the use of force following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
With no end in sight, the U.S. must realize the limits of intervention, both in tanks and treasure, and integrate the implications of their actions over the last 8 years into their policy towards the region.
AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
KABUL — Armed with an AK-47, an American contract worker said Wednesday he held off militants attacking a guest house in Kabul, allowing about t...
Maria Tirmizi | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
Panic-stricken text messages are making the rounds, warning friends and family against possible future target areas.
New York Times | Thom Shanker, Peter Baker and Helene Cooper | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
President Obama's advisers are focusing on a strategy for Afghanistan aimed at protecting about 10 top population centers, administration officials sa...
AP | ROBERT H. REID and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
KABUL — Terrified U.N. workers scrambled over the roof or leaped from windows to escape choking smoke and gunfire after being awakened at dawn W...
Malou Innocent | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
Counterinsurgency--the U.S. military's present strategy--requires a legitimate host nation government, which is not in the foreseeable future regardless of who's president.
AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
BRUSSELS — There are already more than 100,000 international troops in Afghanistan working with 200,000 Afghan security forces and police. It ad...
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.04.2009 | World