The fourth, Jamal al-Harith, was in Afghan during American invasion, having been captured while trying to get to Turkey from Pakistan. ..…

Khalilzad, Afghan American of endless charm and energy, is constant motion, even as his key Iraq is about to undergo substantial change. ..…

Afghan Solution The Inside Story of Abdul Haq, CIA and How Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan by Lucy Morgan Edwards. ..…

The Taliban, according to Afghans I spoke to this summer, have been encouraged by US casualties, which have risen dramatically this year—120 American soldiers were killed in July and August alone and more died in the first eight months of 2010 than in all of 2009. ..…

I would add that much of this progress —- the speed with which our troops deployed this year, the increase in recruits — in recruiting and training of Afghan forces, and the additional troops and trainers from other nations —- much of this is the result of us having sent a clear signal that we will..…

Only recently, an American sergeant major, an adviser to Afghan troops, was gunned down at a base near the Afghan capital, Kabul, in an “insider” or “green-on-blue” attack, a commonplace of that war. He was killed (and another American adviser wounded) by two allied..…