Responding to threats from the Taliban, at least 10 girls' schools have shut down in northern Afghanistan.
By Matthias Gebauer and Shoib Najafizada May 29, 2009
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Prior to his meeting with Obama, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari discusses his country's nuclear arsenal, failed peace talks with the Taliban and the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
By Susanne Koelbl
May 6, 2009
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Rival Islamic militant groups are joining forces to make Pakistan into a stronghold -- and are receiving support from Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency.
By Susanne Koelbl and Britta Sandberg
April 9, 2009
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The president sounds like he's channeling Cheney or McCain -- or a Cold War hawk afraid of international communism -- when he talks about the war in Afghanistan.
By Juan Cole
March 30, 2009
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Ex-Petraeus advisor David Kilcullen warns that if Western forces aren't willing to stick around in Iraq and Afghanistan, extremists will continue turning the locals into weapons.
By Laura Miller
March 11, 2009
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai discovered the importance of adhering to his country's constitution at an awfully convenient political moment.
By Matthias Gebauer and Shoib Najafizada
March 2, 2009
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Pakistan is capitulating to the Taliban in the Swat Valley, where the Islamists plan to introduce Sharia law.
By Susanne Koelbl
February 25, 2009
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Debate rages in NATO as a top U.S. commander calls for deadly attacks on the drug mafia, not just Taliban insurgents.
By Susanne Koelbl
February 2, 2009
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William Dalrymple's review of Ahmed Rashid's "Descent into Chaos" tells a tale of neocon-concocted utter disaster
By Andrew Leonard
January 22, 2009
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Corrupt government and the U.S.'s mismanaged "surge" strategy have led to the Taliban's powerful resurgence in Afghanistan.
By Anand Gopal
October 10, 2008
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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
"If we kill schoolgirls, you shouldn't be surprised"
"Nuclear weapons are not Kalashnikovs"
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban vows to strike America
Obama's domino theory
Meet the accidental guerrillas
Karzai won't leave
Bowing down to the Taliban
Should NATO kill Afghan opium traffickers?
Failure in Afghanistan, catastrophe in Pakistan
Why we're losing in Afghanistan
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
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
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald