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Beheadings, martial law, kidnappings: The Taliban is making its presence felt at the gates of one of Pakistan's biggest cities.
By Walter Mayr
July 8, 2008
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The legendary Texas congressman talks about his secret 1980s Afghan war (and its blowback), the Obama campaign and being better-looking than Tom Hanks.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 22, 2008
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In a secret meeting with a Taliban commander, I learned how Bush administration aid to Pakistan helps fund insurgents who kill U.S. troops.
By Matthew Cole
March 10, 2008
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A furor erupts in Britain over the archbishop's accommodating stance toward Islamic sharia law. Has the cleric -- and multiculturalism -- gone too far?
By Salil Tripathi
February 25, 2008
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The unraveling of Pervez Musharraf's presidency has dealt a severe blow to Bush's fatally flawed policy in the region.
By Juan Cole
February 20, 2008
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Made in the U.S.A. labels aren't working like they're supposed to near the border of Afghanistan
By Andrew Leonard
November 13, 2007
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When the Air Force asks permission first. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has rules for killing civilians. But do the rules actually save lives?
By Mark Benjamin
July 30, 2007
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Violent female vigilantes demand sharia law in Pakistan.
By Carol Lloyd
July 19, 2007
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A conversation with Buzzy Krongard, the executive director of the CIA from 2001 to 2004, about the new National Intelligence Estimate and al-Qaida's resurgence in Pakistan.
By Alex Koppelman
July 19, 2007
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Why the killing of civilians by U.S. Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq could have profound strategic consequences.
By David J. Morris
April 26, 2007
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The vice president slinks home from a disastrous trip where a failed assassination attempt was only the loudest proof that his war policies have emboldened al-Qaida and the Taliban.
By Sidney Blumenthal
March 1, 2007
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The National Review's Andrew Stuttaford gets frustrated with the administration's policy on Afghanistan.
By Alex Koppelman
February 27, 2007
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Westerners who came here in the '70s left magnificent travel writing that captured the rugged, captivating land before war tore it apart.
By Ann Marlowe
August 24, 2006
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With Afghans enraged by a worsening security situation and the West's failure to improve their lives, Afghanistan is in danger of falling back into violent chaos.
By Mitchell Prothero
June 14, 2006
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In attacking liberals' reaction to Sept. 11, Bush's senior advisor once again resorts to McCarthy-style tactics.
By Joe Conason
June 24, 2005
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My Iranian cousin consoled me when Kerry went down in November, and now I can only return the sympathy as hard-line conservatives rise again in his country.
By Lailee Mendelson
June 17, 2005
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Afghanistan isn't Iraq yet. But when a suicide bomber blew himself and two other people up inside my hotel's Internet cafe, it became impossible to ignore the rising anger at foreigners here.
By Quil Lawrence
June 4, 2005
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By now shouldn't liberals and conservatives alike be aghast over the Bush administration's secret, systematic policy of outsourcing torture?
By Mark Follman
February 11, 2005
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The twisted relationship between the Bush administration and Pakistan's military regime, driven by a mutual desire for survival, is undermining the war on terror.
By Husain Haqqani
August 17, 2004
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President Bush failed to focus on terrorism prior to 9/11. Instead, his administration pursued the war on drugs -- and even coddled the Taliban.
April 15, 2004
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Bush's failed strategy in the war on terrorism has spawned more al-Qaidas -- and they're funded by the booming heroin traffic in Afghanistan.
By Husain Haqqani
April 7, 2004
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Why the Taliban are laughing at Saddam's capture. Plus: Conrad Black's slush fund for conservative pundits.
By Joe Conason
December 22, 2003
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He met bin Laden and carried arms for the Taliban. And when he was finally captured, he faced the fury of Americans -- U.S. soldiers in particular. Part 2 of an exclusive excerpt.
By Mark Kukis
August 26, 2003
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How an earnest American student of Islam became a fighter for the Taliban: An exclusive excerpt from the first biography of Lindh.
By Mark Kukis
August 25, 2003
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The director of "Afghan Stories" talks about life in the final days of Taliban rule.
By Suzy Hansen
May 7, 2003
Pakistan's deal with the devil
Charlie Wilson's unfinished war
Killing ourselves in Afghanistan
The troublesome priest
Pakistan turns scary for Bush's war on terror
No logo for the U.S. in Pakistan
When is an accidental civilian death not an accident?
Women fight to lose their rights
A "safe haven" for al-Qaida in Pakistan
America's dangerous trigger finger
How Cheney bombed in Afghanistan
Quote of the day
Destination: Afghanistan
All unquiet on the eastern front
Karl Rove is a liar
No democracy for you
Fear and explosions in Kabul
Subcontracting the hunt for bin Laden
The rise of the baby al-Qaidas
Joe Conason's Journal
The fall of John Walker Lindh
John Walker Lindh's long, dark journey
"Someone should just obliterate my country"
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