The following is an excerpt from Ann Jones' War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of…
In the eight years I’ve reported on Afghanistan, I’ve “embedded” regularly with Afghan civilians, especially women. Recently, however, with American troops “surging”…
President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy isn’t working. So said a parade of Afghanistan watchers during the flap over war commander General Stanley McChrystal’s…
The big Afghanistan debate in Washington is not over whether more troops are needed, but just who they should be: Americans or…
Kabul, July 2009 — I’ve come back to the Afghan capital again, after an absence of two years, to find it ruined…
Wake up, America. The boys are coming home, and they’re not the boys who went away. On New Year’s Day, the New…
[Introduction: Despite George W. Bush’s claim that he’s "truly not that concerned" about Osama bin Laden, the administration is erecting 10 "Wanted"…
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Kailahun, Sierra Leone — Greetings from a war zone that’s not Iraq. And not Afghanistan either. I’m checking in from West…
Born in Afghanistan but raised in the United States, like many in the worldwide Afghan Diaspora, Manizha Naderi is devoted to helping…
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