List of Afghanistan articles
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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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Trust Isn’t The Only Problem In AfPak Relations
Afghanistan and Pakistan have more issues beyond the trust gap. Water, India, and the border all drag down bilateral relations.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Offers New Account of Air Raid on Hospital
Commander says Afghan forces, not U.S. troops, requested air raid that hit clinic in Kunduz. Doctors Without Borders accuses U.S. of trying to shift the blame
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Doctors Without Borders Staff Killed in Afghanistan After Airstrikes
At least 19 people were killed, including 12 Doctors Without Borders staffers, and 37 seriously injured Saturday after U.S. air strikes near the organization’s hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
