List of South Asia articles
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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 The Definition of Insanity Is U.S. AfPak Strategy
The central problem confronting the United States in the region is no longer al Qaeda or the Taliban. It’s the Pakistan Army.
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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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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.
