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  • Guess what, the bombing worked like a charm

    The antiwar hand-wringers kept warning us of its perils. But as the Taliban despots flee Afghan cities, and their citizens cheer, the air war's stunning efficacy is clear for all to see
    By Christopher Hitchens November 14, 2001

  • After the fall

    The Taliban is on the run. What happens now? Who should govern Afghanistan? And how hard will it be to win the war of the caves?
    By Damien Cave, Max Garrone and Daryl Lindsey November 14, 2001

  • The fall of Taloqan

    As townspeople cheer the departure of the despised Taliban, Northern Alliance troops prepare to push on to Kunduz.
    By Phillip Robertson November 13, 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 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

  • 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 high-tech bully

    By reaching for the remote control instead of sending ground troops into Afghanistan, the U.S. is reinforcing its international image as the schoolyard bully, a British critic argues.
    By Walter Ellis October 26, 2001

  • The Taliban's ladies auxiliary

    A revival of conservative Islam among educated Pakistani women has many doing whatever they can to support the war against America.
    By Asra Q. Nomani October 25, 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

  • "At home with the Taliban"

    By Asra Nomani
    October 16, 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

  • Bin Laden's diary

    The terror leader reveals his innermost thoughts on his struggle, his mother, and his favorite infidel-produced TV show.
    By Tom McNichol October 12, 2001

  • The Taliban's bravest opponents

    An underground resistance of Afghan women risks torture and execution to alert the world to the regime's atrocities. One freedom fighter tells Salon her story.
    By Janelle Brown October 2, 2001

  • Friends like these

    Why did so many of the Sept. 11 hijackers have ties to Saudi Arabia? Why can't the U.S. use Saudi bases to fight the war on terrorism? What Americans don't know about their best Muslim ally.
    By Eric Boehlert September 28, 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

  • Creating "many, many Osamas"

    Novelist William Vollmann says if the U.S. convinces Afghans of bin Laden's guilt, they'll support the move against him. If not, only "genocide" will defeat them.
    By Steve Kettmann September 27, 2001

  • Falwell should have listened to the feminists

    Instead of blaming them for the attacks on the U.S., right-wingers ought to thank women's groups for raising alarms about the Taliban early and often.
    By Robert Scheer September 26, 2001

  • Terror's first victims

    When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer.
    By Janelle Brown September 24, 2001

  • Anger in the bazaars of Peshawar

    The Taliban has strong support in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. If there is civil war, it will start here.
    By Sean Kenny September 22, 2001

  • An Afghan-American speaks

    You can't bomb us back into the Stone Age. We're already there. But you can start a new world war, and that's exactly what Osama bin Laden wants.
    By Tamim Ansary September 14, 2001

  • Save the children, or the Buddhas get it

    Afghanistan's roving ambassador tells a Southern California student association why he was ready to "blow a statue" himself.
    By Carina Chocano March 22, 2001

  • "Taliban" by Ahmed Rashid

    A veteran journalist relates the full horror -- brutality, oppression of women and genocide -- of the new Afghanistan.
    By Jonathan Groner April 6, 2000

  • Pakistani purge

    The coup in Pakistan seems to have wide popular support -- with the proviso that military rule should be temporary.
    By Muddasir Rizvi October 13, 1999

  • Days of rage (cont.)

    Filmmaker Stephen Talbot fires back at David Horowitz over his PBS documentary '1968.'
    By Stephen Talbot September 1, 1998
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