List of Afghanistan articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why 2015 Will Be ‘The Year of Never Again’ … Again
In Nigeria and Pakistan, unforgivable attacks on schoolchildren have made the world rise up in anger. Unfortunately, that's all it did.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Congress Gives Pakistan 300 Million New Reasons to Fight Terror
Islamabad swears it's committed to the anti-terrorism fight, but U.S. lawmakers want to see more proof before they sign over $300 million in new aid.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Baby Steps for AfPak Relations
Ghani has a clear vision for AfPak relations but genuine peace building deserves cautious optimism.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Minesweeper: Afghanistan’s Untapped Potential
Afghanistan is rich with natural resources but fully realizing the potential comes with costs and benefits.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Death Throes of the Pakistani Taliban
Why the brutal attacks in Peshawar have already backfired against the TTP.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In the Afterglow of the London Conference
Where does Afghanistan stand after the London Donors Conference? Richard Ponzio, a former coordinator of the U.S. Government’s New Silk Road initiative, explains.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Signal or Noise? The Afghan Taliban’s Interest in Peace
Did Mullah Mohammed Omar just make an overture for peace? And is it a signal -- an indication of true intentions -- or just noise -- activity to gain attention?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Afghanistan Watchdog Pushes Pentagon on Lavish Spending
A top U.S. watchdog is raising new questions about the Pentagon's $700 million effort to boost Afghanistan's economy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Kazakhstan Eyes Prestige in Afghanistan’s Uncertain Future
From development aid to drug trafficking, the Central Asian country wants to up its game in Afghanistan. But it might be biting off more than it can chew.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Failures to Launch
What the Boeing Dreamliner saga, the torture report, and the Iraq War tell us about the successes and failures of accountability in the United States.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend
Pakistan's military operation against militants combined with the new government in Afghanistan have changed relations between the two countries, but is it enough to make them friends?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watchdog Warns Corruption in Afghanistan Is Lasting Challenge to Stability
Even as the American combat mission in Afghanistan comes to a close, mismanagement of reconstruction projects poses a serious threat to taxpayer dollars.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Do we really have a unit rotation system? Nope, except for Special Operators
Tom Ricks offers an insight from CNAS’s Phillip Carter on the management of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 All the President’s Strongmen
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has promised to end corruption and patronage politics, but how successful will he be, considering the nation's strongmen helped put him in office?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 I don’t believe a word of what torture advocates say—and neither should you
Lieutenant Colonel Douglas A. Pryer considers anything meant to "break" another human to be torture. And he's sick of hearing from torture advocates that it's should still be considered a relevant interrogation tactic.
