The debate following the Kandahar massacre shows that Americans at home and in Afghanistan still don’t quite understand the meaning of events in that country.
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.
With the international community’s involvement in Afghanistan winding down, Afghans who worked alongside foreign soldiers and civilians over the past decade are at risk of being left behind in a worsening war and becoming easy prey for militants.
