Historically, from the massacres in Bangladesh in 1971 to the training and arming of Afghan jihadists during the Soviet-Afghan war throughout the 1980s and ‘90s, and then mounting ill-conceived military operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas under American pressure, leading to the..…

Junger could be powerful and high-profile voice writing against and exposing the crimes of the decade-long, the lives of thousands of Afghans and American soldiers. ..…

THE LATEST disclosures from WikiLeaks reveal that, Last fall, Pakistani Army allowed 12 American Special Operations soldiers to deploy with Pakistani troops in the violent tribal areas near Afghan border.. The cables also reveal that American Embassy had received credible..…

American withdrawal, experts said, would erode the authority and legitimacy of Afghan government and could consign Afghanistan to protracted, war, ers Mark Landler, Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt wrote.. ..…

It involves nothing less than direct intervention by a large contingent of American civilian experts in every facet of Afghan life. ... The yearlong “test case” for Obama’s strategy seeks to establish a comprehensive American presence in the Jalrez Valley: . ..…