List of Afghanistan articles
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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.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Finally, Obama gives us the small Afghan war plan we should have pursued in 2001
Last week I asked a friend what the Afghan war would look like had we gone small in the fall of 2001 — that is, not tried to run the whole country, but instead stuck with a regime protection force in Kabul.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Afghanistan Is Not Iraq
The Taliban’s temporary occupation of Kunduz coupled with Obama's new plan to halt U.S. withdrawal makes Afghanistan look like a repeat of the Iraq War. On the ground, the realities are quite different.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama, Dropping Pledge, to Keep Thousands of Troops in Afghanistan After 2016
Some 5,500 U.S. forces will remain in country to train the Afghan army and fight the Taliban, al Qaeda, and the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Washington and Kabul Stand in the Way of International Probe Into Kunduz Attack
President Obama apologized for the airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, but now he stands in the way of an international probe into whether it was a war crime.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.N. Fears an Afghan ‘Brain Drain’ as Taliban Surge Sparks Mass Exodus to Europe
A top U.N. official told Foreign Policy Tuesday that without increased support, Afghanistan risks spiraling into an even worse humanitarian crisis.
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20151010_Quilty_MSF_Knz_Afg_005 Inside the MSF Hospital in Kunduz
An exclusive first look at the horrific aftermath of the U.S. attack in northern Afghanistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Taliban Are Winning
And the taking of Kunduz was just a dry run for the eventual attack on Kabul.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will Heads Roll at the Pentagon for the MSF Hospital ‘Mistake’?
Doctors Without Borders says U.S. troops committed a war crime in Kunduz. Three top American officers could pay the price.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Apologizes to Doctors Without Borders But Is Silent on Independent Probe
President Barack Obama apologized to the president of Doctors Without Borders for the deadly U.S. attack on a hospital in Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people. But the Obama administration would not say whether it would support the group’s efforts to launch an independent investigation of the incident at a never-before used international commission in Switzerland.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Essential Lessons of Terrorists at the Table
The Afghan War has cost a trillion dollars and thousands of lives. The possibility of ending the bloodshed through negotiation deserves close attention.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 On the Road to Kunduz: Follow an FP Contributor’s Journey on Instagram
Kabul-based photographer and FP contributor Andrew Quilty is in Kunduz, Afghanistan this week to report on the fall-out from U.S. airstrikes that hit a hospital there. Follow along on Instagram @foreignpolicymag.
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