When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinn...
Jodie Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Women's rights (which are, in fact, human rights) will never rise from a corrupt, fundamentalist government. We need to be supporting the voices of women to nurture change in Afghanistan.
Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN's John King Sunday on State Of ...
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 ...
nytimes.com | JEAN MacKENZIE | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
The haste with which U.N. Special Representative Kai Eide held a press conference to say that Aug. 20 was "a good day for Afghanistan" merely served t...
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...
Huffington Post | Susan Ryan | Posted 09.20.2009 | World
As Afghanistan holds national elections for the presidency and provincial council, the HuffPost has put together this resource guide to voting day and...
Inter Press Service | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service WASHINGTON, Jul 29 (IPS) - The strategy of the major U.S. and British military offensive in Afghanista...
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Raising expectations for scaling back military operations in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he hopes U.S. involve...
The Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 06.11.2009 | World
KABUL — The U.S. accused Afghan militants Monday of using white phosphorus as a weapon in "reprehensible" attacks on U.S. forces and in civilian...
New York Times | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
President Obama is pouring more than 20,000 new troops into Afghanistan this year for a fighting season that the United States military has called a ...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
With last week's announced escalation of the war in Afghanistan, Obama blew the lid off of any lingering perceptions that he represents a significant change in how the U.S. conducts its foreign policy.
Tom Andrews | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
As someone who was growing up as LBJ's war was tearing his administration down, I had a pit in my stomach as I watched President Obama announce his "Af-Pak" policy.
Jon Soltz | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
We've finally left fantasy-land, where America can simply go somewhere, topple a government, and western-style democracies will pop up and thrive. Afghanistan is a very different beast.
Middle East Times | RICHARD SALE | Posted 04.09.2009 | World
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is mulling a plan that would use Iranian territory to rescue the deteriorating logistics network cur...
Jonathan Powers | Posted 03.21.2009 | World
I hope you will join me in supporting our President Obama and our troops who work to stabilize this "deteriorating situation."
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 03.21.2009 | World
Yesterday President Barack Obama approved the deployment of 17,000 United States troops to Afghanistan, AFP reports. The move led to responses from ac...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Assailants torched 10 trucks stranded in Pakistan by the bombing of a key bridge on the main supply route for U.S. forces i...
Washington Independent | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics
Since Afghans took up arms against the Soviet occupation in 1979, insurgency in war-torn Afghanistan has followed a cyclical pattern. The spring and t...
Washington Independent | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
The tribal elder was direct with the U.S. team. "People are tired of the Taliban because they beat them," he said, speaking in Kushamond, a district o...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Notwithstanding months of partisan wrangling in Congress over the Iraq war, the Senate on Thursday handily confirmed Gen. David Pet...
washingtonpost.com | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Posted 11.20.2009 | World