Tag: Afghanistan
Holbrooke’s youthful idealism evolved into realism, if not cynicism, as he acquiesced to the ironic reality of post-Vietnam national security politics in Washington.
After the U.S. was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, the United States ignored the Powell doctrine -- and the costs are evident all around us.
But even if prayers for lasting peace are never to be answered, we can keep seeking that long-sought end to conflict, can’t we?
Did I mention that war is stupid? If we're only there because we're "there," it's way past time to leave.
Jeff Danziger lives in New York City. He is represented by CWS Syndicate and the Washington Post Writers Group. He is the recipient of the Herblock Prize and the Thomas Nast (Landau) Prize. He served ...
Finbarr O’Reilly was a canny Canadian war photographer embedded in Helmand province in Afghanistan. T.J. Brennan was a boisterous, profane and skeptical Marine sergeant who played host to O’Reilly in 2010, as he and his ...
The 'Daily Show' host on Tuesday dissected President Trump's 180-degree turn away from his promise to withdraw the U.S. from its war in Afghanistan.
The Kabul Grand Hotel was supposed to be a symbol of America's reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. Instead, it's an empty mothballed structure that's heavily guarded courtesy of U.S. taxpayers.
Gunmen attacked the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, with explosions and gunfire reported inside the campus where foreign staff and hundreds of students were trapped, an interior ministry official and a student ...
Obama, in a statement at the White House, said the role of U.S. forces in Afghanistan would remain unchanged: training and advising Afghan police and troops, and supporting counterterrorism missions against the Taliban and other ...
Pakistan's interior minister said on Tuesday he could not confirm that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour had been killed in a U.S. drone strike, and described Washington's justification for the attack as "against international ...
The socialist Vermont senator is under fresh scrutiny today on the (further) left, where his support for intervention in Bosnia and Afghanistan has raised sharp questions. In the online magazine Counter-Punch, Jeffrey St. Clair complains ...
Female Air Force officer, one of the first openly gay U.S. service members to get married, was identified as one of the troops killed by a suicide bomber.
A U.S. official said all six killed were Americans. More than 2,300 U.S. troops have died in the Afghan war since the 2001 invasion.
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