This past week the governor of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province survived a bomb attack on his motorcade. Kandahar is Afghanistan's second largest city and is
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Two Afghan teenagers held in U.S. detention north of Kabul this year said they were beaten by American guards, photographed naked, deprived of sleep and held
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A top-ranking American warned Congress that the military situation in Afghanistan likely will "get harder before it gets easier." Yet Gen. David Petraeus says it is in no worse condition now than Iraq was when he arrived there to take command. (Dec. 9)
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In the debate surrounding Barack Obama’s decision to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, one detail has slipped through without much attention:
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The Obama administration has authorized an expansion of the C.I.A.’s predator drone missile attacks in Pakistan. Most Pakistanis view the attacks by our
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President Obama’s 18-month deadline for starting the Afghanistan pullout didn't survive its first 18 hours. Less than one week after Obama’s speech, Defense
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Last week, President Obama justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year, calling al-Qaida a “cancer in that country.
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Malalai Joya has been called the bravest woman in Afghanistan. Joya was elected the youngest member of the Afghan parliament and suspended for her outspoken
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After months of debate and deliberation, President Obama announced more troops are being sent to Afghanistan in a major escalation of the war there. However,
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Sher Mohammed Akhundzada, the former governor of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, has revealed that he turned thousands of his followers over to the Taliban
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