Afghanistan

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  • No facts, please -- we're British

    Americans are flocking to feisty British papers for news about the war. But there's a reason the U.S. media fails to follow up on the Brits' "scoops" -- they're frequently not true.
    By Trevor Butterworth November 9, 2001

  • Does bin Laden have Marfan syndrome?

    Is Osama suffering from a rare disease that can cause sudden death?
    By Mark Francis Cohen November 9, 2001

  • The Turkey card

    The secular, majority-Muslim nation, whose special forces are now backing the U.S. in Afghanistan, is a crucial coalition partner, says author Stephen Kinzer.
    By Anthony York November 8, 2001

  • "The Lion in Winter"

    Listen to Sebastian Junger read his profile of Afghan rebel Ahmed Shah Massoud, from in his new book, "Fire."
    November 6, 2001

  • Unholy war

    Bush says he won't stop bombing during Ramadan. But the tactic could blow up in our faces.
    By Eric Boehlert November 5, 2001

  • America's identity crisis

    Waging war projects American might in Central Asia -- but only makes it harder to catch bin Laden. That's why we should stop the bombing and intensify the international police hunt.
    By Michael T. Klare November 3, 2001

  • The making of Osama bin Laden

    From Saudi rich boy to the world's most wanted man: A British newspaper painstakingly retraces the development of a terrorist mastermind.
    By Jason Burke November 1, 2001

  • The sorrow of war

    With every heartbreaking picture of innocent victims, more of the world turns against the U.S. bombing. But the American military has taken more care to minimize civilian casualties than any other armed force in the world.
    By Damien Cave and Max Garrone October 31, 2001

  • Stuck in the Gulf

    Could Central Asian oil, piped through a rebuilt Afghanistan, wean the West from the Mideast? Chances are slim.
    By Damien Cave October 29, 2001

  • Afghanistan's land mine nightmare

    Mines killed 1,100 Afghans last year, and injured up to 100 more a week. Now American ground troops head to a battlefield littered with 10 million mines -- and the conflict could leave more behind.
    By Janelle Brown October 22, 2001

  • Love-bombing bin Laden

    The peace-loving people of Berkeley believe that fighting evil makes one evil.
    By David Rieff October 19, 2001

  • Optional burqas and mandatory malnutrition

    After spending 18 months studying Afghanistan, Dr. Lynn Amowitz reports that life under the Taliban is more brutal -- and more complicated -- than we suspected.
    By Janelle Brown October 19, 2001

  • Polled over

    President Bush's 92 percent public approval rating has as much staying power as one of the snack packs dropped on Afghanistan. But the meaningless poll data has cowed the Democrats into silence.
    By Arianna Huffington October 18, 2001

  • "At home with the Taliban"

    By Asra Nomani
    October 16, 2001

  • Nader attacks U.S. bombing campaign

    "When are we going to learn from history?" he asks a cheering San Francisco audience. "When are we going to learn that we can't bomb our way to justice?"
    By Damien Cave October 12, 2001

  • A thousand and one e-mails

    The Taliban has declared the Internet un-Islamic, but elsewhere in the Muslim world, going online is one way to avoid the censors.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 12, 2001

  • Rumi: No. 1 in Afghanistan and the USA

    Translator Coleman Barks discusses the bestselling poet who's loved equally among Yanks and Afghans.
    By Amy Standen October 12, 2001

  • Can we rebuild Afghanistan?

    There is no Marshall Plan for this tattered nation, and the lessons of trying to fix Cambodia, Bosnia and Somalia aren't inspiring.
    By Damien Cave October 11, 2001

  • The American bully strikes back

    A reader responds to Gary Kamiya's "War Without End"
    October 10, 2001

  • A double standard on terror?

    While chasing bin Laden, the U.S. is ignoring Pakistan's nukes, Saudi Arabia's Muslim extremism and its own attacks on civilians in Iraq.
    By Robert Scheer October 9, 2001

  • Watching the explosions from "Afghan Town"

    Afghan-American intellectuals and journalists hope the U.S. is a rescuer, not a destroyer.
    By David Talbot October 8, 2001

  • War and peace

    Our fight against terrorism gives the U.S. a historic opportunity to become a kinder, gentler force in the world
    By Gary Kamiya October 8, 2001

  • The unwanted

    Hundreds of thousands of Afghans already live in squalid Pakistani refugee camps, where freshly made coffins lie outside carpenters' workshops. Can the world handle a million more?
    By Sean Kenny October 5, 2001

  • Preparing for the worst

    As war looms over Afghanistan, relief agencies are racing to stave off mass starvation -- inside and outside the ravaged country.
    By Anthony York October 5, 2001

  • Where's my Islamic e-book?

    The demand for good books about terrorism or Afghanistan has never been greater, but the best are hard to find. Why can't I just click, buy and download?
    By Andrew Leonard September 28, 2001
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