Afghanistan
This Week at War: The Long Shadow of Battles Past
What lessons can we learn from the way the U.S. ends its wars?
BY ROBERT HADDICK | JULY 22, 2011
The LWOT: Alleged Ft. Hood shooter arraigned
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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | JULY 22, 2011
Assassin Nation
After more than three decades of targeted killings, is there anyone left alive who can actually run Afghanistan?
BY EDWARD GIRARDET | JULY 18, 2011
This Week at War: Petraeus's Next Campaign
The new CIA chief will take on the covert war in Pakistan.
BY ROBERT HADDICK | JULY 15, 2011
Who Killed Ahmed Wali Karzai?
The Taliban is taking credit for assassinating the Afghan president's powerful brother. But a personal feud seems more likely.
BY MATTHIEU AIKINS | JULY 12, 2011
A Thousand Points of Light
When it comes to bringing electricity to the developing world, small is beautiful.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 11, 2011
Poland's 'Vietnam Syndrome' in Afghanistan
A high-profile war crimes trial points out the dangerous divide between America and its allies on the ground in Afghanistan.
BY ALEKSANDRA KULCZUGA | JULY 7, 2011
The Most Notable Revolutionaries of 2011
Right, wrong, or otherwise -- these freedom fighters haven't let the powers-that-be block them, and we're (mostly) better off for it.
BY DAVID J. ROTHKOPF | JULY 1, 2011
Lift One from the Gipper
Tim Pawlenty has the Reaganite foreign policy talking points down, but do they add up to anything?
BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY 1, 2011
The Road Home from Kabul
Drawing down troops from Afghanistan is the right move. Now it's time to focus on the real threat in the neighborhood: the one coming from Pakistan.
BY JOHN KERRY | JUNE 24, 2011
The World's Most Dangerous Borders
Thirteen places you don't want to be stuck at.
BY PHILIP WALKER | JUNE 24, 2011
Let's Make a Deal
The United States and the Taliban should be able to work out a compromise on Afghanistan. But will the Afghans be able to live with it?
BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 24, 2011
Leaving Afghanistan
Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
JUNE 23, 2011
Get Out, or Get the Hell Out?
President Obama's speech highlights one inconvenient truth: The United States is running out of time in Afghanistan. And the only question, it seems, is how fast to head for the exits.
JUNE 22, 2011
The Brutal Truth
Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.
BY STEWART PATRICK | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Country First
After a turbulent decade abroad, the Republican Party turns inward.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 17, 2011
The Drawdown Debate
Jon Huntsman may have been a no-show at the first 2012 GOP debate, but his comments about the U.S. footprint in Afghanistan made the most news. FP asked three Afghanistan experts to weigh in.
JUNE 16, 2011
It's Evening in America
At the first GOP presidential debate, the Bush-era neoconservative movement seemed as good as dead.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JUNE 14, 2011
The LWOT: Chicago man convicted of supporting Lashkar-e-Taiba
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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | JUNE 10, 2011
Al Qaeda's Toughest Task
Slain jihadi leaders like Ilyas Kashmiri and Osama bin Laden aren't so easily replaced.
BY RAFFAELLO PANTUCCI | JUNE 6, 2011
Think Again: Bob Gates
As the secretary of defense steps down, it's time to set aside the paeans and reconsider the conventional take on his tenure.
BY BENJAMIN H. FRIEDMAN, JUSTIN LOGAN | JUNE 3, 2011
The Lost Villages
Saying goodbye to a once-friendly land, now taken without a fight by the Taliban.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | JUNE 3, 2011
The LWOT: Iraqis arrested on terror charges in Kentucky
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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | JUNE 3, 2011
A One-Man Insurgency
How a young Afghan went from policeman to murderer to saint.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | MAY 27, 2011
The LWOT: Mumbai terror trial focuses on Pakistani intelligence role
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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | MAY 24, 2011
The Gul Under the Bed
Afghanistan needs to stop blaming a washed-up spymaster for all of its problems.
BY NAHEED MUSTAFA | MAY 23, 2011
The Young and the Betrothed
The strange world of Afghan weddings and the dark side of early marriage.
MAY 19, 2011
A Groom's Tale
In rural Afghanistan, girls aren't the only ones getting married too young.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | MAY 19, 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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