• "Someone should just obliterate my country"

    The director of "Afghan Stories" talks about life in the final days of Taliban rule.
    By Suzy Hansen May 7, 2003

  • The air industry's worst nightmare

    Just days ago, national security executives met secretly with airline CEOs to warn them that al-Qaida may be planning to fire shoulder-launched missiles at commercial jets in the U.S. There's virtually no defense.
    By Paul J. Caffera November 22, 2002

  • The Salon Interview: Steve Earle

    The radical country rocker and composer of "John Walker's Blues" blasts the war on Iraq, denounces the death penalty and explains why ex-druggies believe in God.
    By Andrew O'Hehir November 13, 2002

  • It's the war, stupid

    Yes, the Democrats have serious problems. But without 9/11, they still would have trounced Bush and the Republicans.
    By Gary Kamiya November 7, 2002

  • On a secret Taliban trail into Afghanistan

    Walking the narrow goat trails of Kunar Province, Taliban and al-Qaida fighters can travel with their weapons to and from Pakistan. But which way are they headed?
    By Phillip Robertson September 19, 2002

  • U.S. airstrike near Asadabad

    In an Afghan province known for its hostility to the West, the U.S. is hunting for a fierce Islamic military leader.
    By Phillip Robertson September 6, 2002

  • A legal war without victory

    After months of bold posturing and fierce infighting, both sides in the case of American Taliban John Walker Lindh decided to cut their risks.
    By Dave Lindorff July 16, 2002

  • Al-Qaida monitored U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pipeline

    A memo by military chief Mohammed Atef raises new questions about whether failed U.S. efforts to reform Afghanistan's radical regime -- and build the pipeline -- set the stage for Sept. 11.
    By Jean-Charles Brisard June 5, 2002

  • Parents for a Taliban-free youth

    How to tell if your child is a future John Walker Lindh.
    By Tom McNichol February 4, 2002

  • Love, Jalalabad style

    Since the Taliban fell, weddings are a time to sing and drink and party. But some things haven't changed: Nadar didn't meet his bride until their wedding day.
    By Phillip Robertson January 23, 2002

  • Gen. Rashid Dostum

    The Uzbek warlord, and Afghanistan's new interim deputy defense minister, sounds enlightened, but can he walk it like he talks it?
    By Asla Aydintasbas January 8, 2002

  • I studied in Yemen with John Walker

    He was fresh from Marin, more Catholic than the pope and the other students derisively nicknamed him Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens).
    By Joshua Mortensen January 4, 2002

  • John Walker's brothers and sisters

    None of the San Francisco Bay Area's many other Muslim converts followed his same ill-fated path. But is there something about their religious experience that estranges them from their own country?
    By Anthony York December 21, 2001

  • Panic at the Bangi Bridge

    A trip to the front in Afghanistan turns into a nightmare after a Taliban ambush sets off a panic.
    By Phillip Robertson December 21, 2001

  • Al-Qaida's last stand

    After I dodged a mortar shell on the front lines and met with mujahedin fighters who weren't so lucky, the Eastern Alliance declared victory -- again.
    By Mark Kukis December 17, 2001

  • Leaping to conclusions

    Well-meaning observers are making dangerous assumptions about Afghan women and their goals for the future.
    By Tamim Ansary December 17, 2001

  • An Afghan aristocrat fights for equality

    Leila Enayat-Seraj rolls up her couture sleeves to rescue Afghan art and restore civil rights for women.
    By Janelle Brown December 13, 2001

  • Ready for her close-up

    A doctor, educator, human rights activist and mother, Habiba Sarabi longs for a chance to work -- legally -- back home in Afghanistan.
    By Janelle Brown December 12, 2001

  • America's handy new Insta-Traitor: Just add hot-tub water and stir!

    Conservatives who say that America-hating California relativism produced John Walker don't know what they're talking about -- literally.
    By Scott Rosenberg December 11, 2001

  • The women behind the women of Afghanistan

    Hena Efat was smuggled into the Afghan Women's Summit; her plan is to go home and fight some more.
    By Janelle Brown December 11, 2001

  • Any day now

    Afghan women hope to use the momentum of international recognition to secure civil rights and a role in government.
    By Janelle Brown December 3, 2001

  • Out of Afghanistan

    After witnessing the fall of Kunduz and seeing the dead body of one of his colleagues, our Afghanistan correspondent tries to get out of the country.
    By Phillip Robertson December 3, 2001

  • Kunduz finally falls

    But peace may be elusive, as Northern Alliance commanders begin battling one another as soon as the Taliban is defeated.
    By Phillip Robertson November 26, 2001

  • The Taliban's deadly "refugees"

    Taliban guerrillas are moving into refugee camps inside Afghanistan -- safe havens where they can regroup, skim food provided by aid agencies, and recruit new troops.
    By Ben Barber November 22, 2001

  • "Beneath the Veil" redux

    Documentary filmmaker Saira Shah returns to Afghanistan to find hopeful soldiers and starving children. Her film of the journey is called "Unholy War."
    By Janelle Brown November 16, 2001
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