List of Afghanistan articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Chases New Role in Central Asia Against Mounting Security Concerns
Despite talk to avoid a "Great Game" in Central Asia, Washington is still walking a tightrope between Russia and China in the region.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 NATO Official During Kunduz Strike: ‘I’ll Do My Best, Praying for You All’
A new MSF report goes into harrowing detail about the Oct. 3 U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watchdog Blasts the Pentagon’s $43M Gas Station That Will Fuel Few Cars in Afghanistan
DoD built a $43 million gas station in Afghanistan that no one can use.
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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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<> on May 2, 2011 in New York, United States. Longform’s Picks of the Week
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