Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Afghanistan.
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…
The December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan was a watershed event, one that definitively ended ādĆ©tenteā between the global superpowers, the United States…
We Americans have been atĀ warĀ now since October 7th, 2001. That was when our military first launchedĀ air strikesĀ against the Taliban in Afghanistan in…
Various versions of the aphorism āWar is Godās way of teaching Americans geographyā have been making the rounds ever since the rise…
Birds dip between low branches that hang over glittering brooks along the drive from Jalalabad heading south toward the Achin district of…
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