Afghanistan
The Wars America Doesn't Talk About
A disturbing triumphalism over the Libya intervention has emerged amid the conspiracy of silence over the bloody mess in Afghanistan.
BY SUSAN GLASSER | SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Unilaterally Assured Destruction
If it's possible to deter terrorist attacks, why hasn't the United States adopted this strategy as a core principle of the war on terror?
BY BARRY PAVEL, MATTHEW KROENIG | SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
9/11 from Arab Shores
Ten years after the World Trade Center attacks, is 9/11 still a seminal moment or a historical footnote for the Middle East?
BY BORZOU DARAGAHI | SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
'I Will Be Killed Soon'
After 10 years of U.S. presence in Afghanistan, a family that has struggled to survive through decades of foreign invaders prepares for the worst blow yet.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
A Decade of Resolve
We've made some mistakes in the 10 years since 9/11, but today Americans are profoundly safer -- and Islamic terrorists are dramatically weakened -- as a result of the course we've charted.
BY JOSEPH LIEBERMAN | SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
The LWOT: U.S. authorities confirm 9/11 threat
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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND AND ANDREW LEBOVICH | SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
Reading Shakespeare in Kandahar
The United States has won some measure of revenge in the 10 years since 9/11. But as in Shakespeare's bloodthirsty play Titus Andronicus, has the cost been too great?
BY NICK SCHIFRIN | SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
Return of the Renditioned
A Libyan rebel commander claims he was captured and tortured by the CIA. Who else has surfaced from the murky depths of the war on terror's list of the condemned?
BY KATHERINE HAWKINS | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
What War Looks Like
The aftermath of the 9/11 attacks took photojournalist Kate Brooks to Afghanistan and Pakistan to cover the fall of the Taliban. These are her images of the Afghans whom she met during her journey and the slow-motion descent into civil war that has played out over the past decade.
PHOTOS BY KATE BROOKS | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Mission Accomplished. Finally.
Ten years after 9/11, it's time for President Obama to finally call an end to America's adventures abroad.
BY BRUCE ACKERMAN | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
7 Things You Didn’t Know About the War on Terror
From an attempt to negotiate with Osama bin Laden to a proposal to threaten to bomb Mecca, it's been a wild decade for the U.S. national security establishment.
BY ERIC SCHMITT, THOMAS SHANKER | SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
The Long War's Long Tail
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross's new book, Bin Laden's Legacy, wonders which side actually is winning the war on terror.
BY J.M. BERGER | AUGUST 30, 2011
Hotels for Hacks
A look at some of the world's famous hotels, loved, hated, and holed up in by far-flung war correspondents.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING, TY MCCORMICK, BENJAMIN PAUKER | AUGUST 24, 2011
The Cowboy Abroad
We know plenty about what Rick Perry, the GOP's newest presidential front-runner, thinks of America. But what about the rest of the world?
BY ERICA GRIEDER | AUGUST 24, 2011
Stopping the Fifth Column
How to end a post-Qaddafi insurgency in Libya before it starts.
BY BRIAN FISHMAN | AUGUST 24, 2011
Roads to Ruin
Generations of conquerors and marauders have come and gone in northern Afghanistan, but the paths on which they travel have endured.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | AUGUST 17, 2011
In a Sick Country
Afghanistan is dying -- not because of the Taliban or the allied forces, but from minor ailments that are slowly killing off a population with no medical services to speak of.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | AUGUST 12, 2011
Interventionism Run Amok
Obama has just declared preventing mass atrocities to be a "core national security interest" of the United States. Americans, watch your wallets.
BY CELESTE WARD GVENTER | AUGUST 10, 2011
The Taliban Are Here. Does It Matter?
After centuries of oppression, a village wakes up to its new masters.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | AUGUST 8, 2011
Mission Not Accomplished
Reports of al Qaeda's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
BY CHRISTOPHER HEFFELFINGER | AUGUST 5, 2011
All Guns, No Butter
What the debt ceiling deal tells us about the Tea Party's grim vision of American power.
BY JAMES TRAUB | AUGUST 5, 2011
The Taliban Come to Mazar
Last month, NATO forces ceded this northern city to the Afghan army, calling it safe territory. But insurgent forces are on the doorstep.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | AUGUST 3, 2011
Outside the Wire
Three months beyond the base in Afghanistan.
IMAGES BY TIVADAR DOMANICZKY | JULY 28, 2011
Female Engagement
In Afghanistan, a Marine's work is never done.
IMAGES BY RITA LEISTNER | JULY 27, 2011
The War in Hipstamatic
A rare and beautiful look at Afghanistan, through an iPhone.
IMAGES BY BALAZS GARDI | JULY 25, 2011
Norway's 9/11?
Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of Norway's Peace Research Institute Oslo, explains why the Norwegian capital might have been on a terrorist's shortlist of potential targets.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | JULY 22, 2011
Less Is More
Cutting U.S. military aid to Pakistan might be just what the world's most frustrating alliance needs.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY 22, 2011
Chicago street gang and Lyndon LaRouche appear in Qaddafi's FBI file
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
No, the Spanish can’t be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
Obama scolds military over sexual assaults
BY KEVIN BARON
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
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BY ELIAS GROLL
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