List of Afghanistan articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cashing In on the Decision to Keep U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
Why Obama dropping his promise to end America's longest war is going to give contractors billions of dollars.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Afghan President Ghani Pun-tificates on D.C. Voting Rights
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is surprisingly up to speed on D.C. voting rights.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Defense Department Investigating Reports of Child Abuse in Afghanistan
U.S. Special Ops soldier who beat an Afghan police official for allegedly abusing a young boy is at the center of the scandal.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Women, Peace, and Security in Afghanistan
It's been 15 years since the UN passed UNSCR 1325. How has Women, Peace, and Security policy changed in Afghanistan and the Congo since then?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Inside the MSF Hospital in Kunduz
FP's Rebecca Frankel and Dan De Luce talk to photojournalist Andrew Quilty about what it was like covering the aftermath of the tragic U.S. airstrike on the ground in Afghanistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Taliban’s Tet Offensive and the Attack on Kunduz
We cannot let Afghanistan suffer the same fate as Vietnam.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘We Fail Better’ Should Not Be the Motto of the U.S. Military
David Rothkopf, Rosa Brooks, Kori Schake, and Tom Ricks wrestle with America's recent legacy in the Middle East and what's broken with the last superpower's armed forces.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Ties That Bind
The meeting between Obama and Sharif is unlikely to offer a new thinking. But it is a chance to be honest about what can be achieved in the latest juncture of America’s longest war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The peace opportunity presented by the new stalemate in the Afghan war
The Taliban recently overran Kunduz, Afghanistan’s sixth largest city. Afghan forces backed by American air power are slowly taking it back. The loss of Kunduz was a temporary political embarrassment to the Afghan government. It may have caused President Obama to reverse his timetable for the withdrawal of American forces.
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20151010_Quilty_MSF_Knz_Afg_029 MSF Hospital Survivors Recount a Night of Horror
With the roar of a plane overhead, doctors and patients huddled in the basement as the hospital went up in flames.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Trump on President Bush and 9/11: ‘The World Trade Center Came Down During His Reign’
GOP front-runner Donald Trump hints former President George W. Bush is responsible for 9/11 attacks.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Intercept’s ‘Drone Papers’ Revelations Mandate a Congressional Investigation
Sadly, that will never happen under the Obama administration’s watch.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Days After Hospital Bombing, Kerry Boasts About Health Care Access in Afghanistan
During a speech on Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry boasted about U.S. efforts to improve Afghanistan’s health care system as he defended the Obama administration’s plans to keep thousands of American troops in the country beyond a previous 2016 deadline.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Barack Obama and the Powell Doctrine, Reconsidered
Leaving troops in Afghanistan is the right thing to do. It is also a telling, sad legacy for the U.S. president.
