Some senior advisers fully aware of the risk of quagmire have concluded that to allow a Taliban victory in Afghanistan will amount to a "second Iranian revolution," but a Sunni one.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
A lengthy and focused counterinsurgency effort might eventually produce results, but its chances of success are greatly diminished by the political climate in Afghanistan.
AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
ROME — Italy and NATO on Thursday denied a newspaper report that Italian intelligence secretly paid the Taliban thousands of dollars to keep the...
nytimes.com | ROBERT A. PAPE | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
AS President Obama and his national security team confer this week to consider strategies for Afghanistan, one point seems clear: our current military...
McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay and Hal Bernton | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
WASHINGTON -- A recent U.S. intelligence assessment has raised the estimated number of full-time Taliban-led insurgents fighting in Afghanistan to at ...
Percy Blakeney | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
If Obama permits McChrystal to implement his strategy, the US will lose the war in Afghanistan, the Taliban will return to power, and the nation will once again become a safe haven for al-Qaeda and Islamic extremism.
AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
KABUL -- Afghan officials would face a daunting task in organizing a runoff presidential election before the arrival of winter -- including hiring un...
Lisa Schirch | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
No matter the outcome of President Obama's deliberations about US strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the tactic of using unmanned drone strikes should be taken off the table.
Inter Press Service | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strateg...
Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
Recently leaked intelligence assessments reportedly show that Al-Qaida and the jihadist Taliban groups account for only 10 percent of the insurgents in Afghanistan.
Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has a...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bombing targeting Pakistani troops killed 41 people Monday, the fourth grisly militant attack in just over a ...
Los Angeles Times | Laura King | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
Days before the outcome of Afghanistan's contentious presidential vote was expected to be announced, the head of the United Nations mission in the cou...
New York Times | SCOTT SHANE | Posted 10.11.2009 | World
Eight years later, Mullah Omar leads an insurgency that has gained steady ground in much of Afghanistan against much better equipped American and NATO...
Foreign Policy | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
In a dramatic shift, some U.S. military and civilian officials in Afghanistan are now trying to negotiate with Afghan Taliban fighters to encourage th...
AFP | Waheedullah Massoud | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
KABUL (AFP) The Taliban Friday condemned Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, saying rather than bring peace to Afghanistan he had boosted troop numbers ...
Robert Naiman | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
Like the Nobel Peace Prize given to Desmond Tutu in 1984 to encourage an end of apartheid in South Africa, the Nobel Committee is now encouraging the change in world relations that Obama has promised.
Tom Hayden | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
Any possibility of capturing or killing Mullah Omar -- and in their deepest fantasies, perhaps Osama Bin Laden -- is an opportunity too exciting for the Pentagon and the president to resist.
Robert Naiman | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
The top official in the Obama Administration, who is actually a leading scholar with long experience in Afghanistan, is leading the charge against sending more troops.
Jon Soltz | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
From Generals MacArthur to Shinseki, history has taught us that trying to pressure your commander-in-chief from the outside almost never results in a change of opinion from the president.
Sam Sedaei | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
As President Obama is getting ready to live up to his promise, renew American efforts in Afghanistan and make a number of critical decisions regarding an increase of troops, an ever-growing chorus of liberals is pressuring him to abandon Afghanistan and withdraw without any regards to what will happen next.
Jeff Stein | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
McChrystal is in for a rude awakening if he thinks he's a latter-day MacArthur, with a vast conservative following ready to rally to his side.
Robert Scheer | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
It's time to declare victory and begin to get out of Afghanistan rather than descend deeper into an intractable civil war that we neither comprehend nor in the end will care much about.
The Associated Press | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
As of Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, at least 791 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasi...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
KABUL — Al-Qaida's role in Afghanistan has faded after eight years of war. Gone is the once-formidable network of camps and safe houses where O...
Nathan Gardels | Posted 10.15.2009 | World