Jirgas, or meetings convened by elders, are a cornerstone of Pakistani society. But their verdicts often condone violence, and the targets are often women. |
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Tamim Nuristani used to own a pizza chain in California. Now he's a marked man in Afghanistan.
In August 2010, shortly after WikiLeaks released tens of thousands of classified documents that cataloged the harsh realities of the war...
KABUL, Afghanistan — In what was an extraordinarily violent day even by Afghan standards, separate incidents on Sunday killed seven...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Not so long ago, if a senior U.S. official appearing in a high-profile setting were asked about corruption in...
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WASHINGTON — Once a month, a group of staff members from the House and Senate intelligence committees drives across the Potomac...
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Dramatic works about Afghanistan, such as Tony Kushner's "Homebody/Kabul" and the more recent multi-authored bill of plays "The Great Game:...
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Seeking to reduce civilian casualties and collateral damage, the Pentagon will soon deploy a new generation of drones the size of model...
Sgt. 1st Class Walter Taylor's life collapsed in four interminable seconds in a dusty field in central Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — A brazen daytime assassination on Sunday offered a grim reminder of stymied progress in a key part of NATO's...
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The paratroopers had their assignment: Check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide...
KABUL, Afghanistan — The brazen and well-coordinated attacks by insurgents against four embassies and other key sites in the heart...
Six months ago, in a moving ceremony during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, President Hamid Karzai went on Afghan television to pardon...
After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to...
On the evening of April 5, a pilot settled into a leather captain's chair at Creech Air Force Base in southern Nevada and took the...
Osama bin Laden, a scion of one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families, became the grim apostle of a strain of Islamic radicalism that...
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