Lovely and professional
EVERY six months Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, finds an excuse to nip down to India, a close ally to his government.
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Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, David Petraeus...
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Afghan peace lost in transition worries
KABUL — Amid the scattered but steadily mounting carnage of the Taliban’s annual spring offensive, including a suicide bombing Monday that killed a ...
Obama’s case for drones
President Obama’s speech Thursday detailing a new approach to counterterrorism focused heavily on the use of unarmed aerial vehicles, better known as ...
Curing America's Fear of Commitment
Not since the days of Charles de Gaulle has America spilled blood and treasure on a less grateful national leader than Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
A Group Taking Politics and Military Strategy to the Same Extremes
A suicide bombing in Kabul was almost as noteworthy for the group that took credit — Hezb-i-Islami, a largely spent insurgent force — as for its ...
Afghanistan’s Karzai Says ‘No Circumstances’ Allow Him to Seek Another Term
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has sought to dispel talk that he find a way to stay in power beyond his constitutionally mandated two ...
An End In Sight
The challenges that Barack Obama faced upon taking office were, even his critics would admit, daunting: an economy tail-spinning toward a second ...
Afghanistan: Bomb kills 15, including 6 Americans
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans in a ...
Open thread for night owls: Summoning the godfather of investibators
This actually appeared as an op-ed for the New York Times. From previous Times editor Bill Keller, no less. Republicans are howling for President ...