Una Moore is an international development professional who has worked in Afghanistan since 2010. She writes about about security, aid, technology and civil society. Follow her on Twitter @UnaDispatch.
Will plans to massively build up --and then massively downsize-- the Afghan security forces contribute to more violence and turn Afghanistan into Central Asia’s bargain bazaar for small arms?
While the backlash against expanded rights and freedoms for Afghan women has been gathering momentum in recent years, so too have efforts to create greater opportunities for women in Afghan society. Part 2 of my 2-part look at what's at stake for women a decade into the international intervention.
Afghan women are again at the center of a volatile national debate over whether basic rights and freedoms should be extended to the female half of the population. Part 1 of a 2-part look at what's at stake.
Countrywide riots over the accidental destruction of Korans at an American military base have morphed into anarchic outlets for general anger at the state of the country's long-running conflict. Here are the latest developments.
The inadvertent destruction of Korans by American military personnel caused grave offense to Afghans generally, but not everyone in Afghanistan is literally up in arms over the incident.
Earlier this month, I spent a week at NATO with eight other bloggers, attending briefings on issues as varied as the mission in Afghanistan and cyber security. Here’s what stood out to me.
“Is that reasonable that all of them would die at night?” That’s how Afghanistan’s top disaster response official responded when asked about the nearly two dozen children who have frozen to death in IDP camps in Kabul over the past month.
When NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen spoke to the press yesterday at the end of the first of two days of meetings with NATO defense ministers, he tried to dispel confusion surrounding the end of NATO’s role in Afghanistan.
NATO will end combat operations in Afghanistan in mid-2013, more than a year ahead of schedule. The accelerated withdrawal of NATO forces will dominate the agenda of the NATO ministerial summit today and tomorrow.
