Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Afghanistan.
Three days after terrorists killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush stood behind…
In the second part of our interview with Italian philosopher and professor of political theory Sandro Mezzadra, we discussed a range of…
Damning evidence of the culture of Britainās special forces, from their training camps in Herefordshire to the battlefields of Afghanistan, was released…
The Afghanistan War Commission, created by the U.S. Congress in 2021, will deliver its final report in about two months on lessons learned…
In mid-May 2026, an article by Mohammad Altaf Afridi, a former USAID program director in Pakistan, published in The Guardian attracted considerable…
The street market in the Afghan border town of Torkham in Nangraha province has āgone silent.ā Anxiety about the future is rising…
There is an epidemic of child sex crimes in and around Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since 2021, and the American withdrawal from…
On the evening of November 26, Andrew Wolfe and Sarah Beckstrom were stationed outside the Farragut West Metro Station in Washington, DC.…
For decades, women in Afghanistan have been among the first and easiest victims of fundamentalist fascism and imperialism. In every era and…
This week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. government made war in Afghanistan while helping to ārecruit, train and pay for lawless…
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