List of Afghanistan articles
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Afghan school girls play in the yard after their class at Ayesha primary school in Mazar-i Sharif on April 12, 2013. Under the hard line Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, cinema was banned and girls were prohibited from attending school. AFP PHOTO/ Farshad USYAN (Photo credit should read FARSHAD USYAN/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Terrorists on the Dais: How Terrorists Exploit the Media
By covering terrorist attacks in never-ending news cycles, journalists are playing into the terrorists’ strategy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Fix Afghanistan’s Broken Peace Process
The country's new president has breathed fresh life into talks with the Taliban. But can he broker a deal that his people will get behind?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Peace Window Is Closing For AfPak
Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have changed over the last nine months. But progress toward reconciliation has at best stalled, potentially forfeiting an historic opportunity.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Taliban’s Enemies, Foreign and Domestic
Any expansion of the Islamic State into Afghanistan is worrying enough to disquiet the Taliban, and it changes the nature of the insurgency. Afghanistan and Pakistan need to respond accordingly.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Welcome to Afghanistan’s Peace College
Can you teach your way out of a war?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A hot new novel about our wars: ‘I’d Walk With My Friends If I Could Find Them’
The structure of the novel is challenging, but Goolsby employs ruthless thematic control in order keep the narrative clipping along.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Future of the Taliban
With patron support waning and the Islamic State expanding, the Taliban may transform into a militant political group in order to survive.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Saffron Revolution of 2018
Without political reform, a never-ending war, and a declining economy, this is how everyone could lose in Afghanistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Terrorists Had a Banner Year in 2014, Killing More Than 30,000
The increase in terrorism's violence comes amid the Islamic State's spread in Iraq and Syria and Boko Haram violence in Nigeria.
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Street scene from the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. Bloodsport
From cockfighting to buzkashi, Afghanistan’s pastimes are as brutal as the country’s history.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Record Year in Misery: the World Has Never Seen a Refugee Crisis This Bad
Some 60 million people worldwide have been forced to leave their homes.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Securing Afghanistan’s Future
Ghani’s plan for Afghanistan to become self-reliant is an ambitious one; however, by several measures, it has been successful, ensuring resources drive better outcomes and deliver for the people.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Gold, Skype-Equipped Shipping Container Being Used to Connect America With Iran
A gold-gilded shipping container, currently stationed in Washington, D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson Plaza, provides 20-minute video links to the Iranian capital of Tehran; Herat, Afghanistan; and Havana, Cuba.
