Afghanistan War

Federal Pension Lawsuit Expanded For All City Workers Called to Military Duty After 9/11

All city workers called to military duty after 9/11 will be represented in a lawsuit to recover unpaid pension funds. In early August, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of three retired NYPD officers seeking to recoup pension funds they would've earned had ... More >>

Evil Parent Tells What She Does With Her Kids' Halloween Candy

In this disturbing video, a parenting "expert" explains to a "newsman" the strategies she uses for getting rid of "unhealthy" Halloween candy. A couple of her suggestions: Throw some away every night, break up the candy and bake it in fiber-bearing muffins, send it to the troops in Afghanistan -- ... More >>

Essential Killing

The Taliban Would Like You to Know That They Are Not, In Fact, at a Peace Retreat in the Maldives

​Sometimes, like many other people, I sit in the office and daydream of being somewhere else. And some of these times, it's simply just outside! And other times, it's in The Maldives, which if you don't know, is a really expensive, really beautiful, really secluded island retreat where people ... More >>

Top 5 Million Things Banned By the Taliban

The New YorkerCreeping beauties: Taliban get dolled up for the cameraAre we sure that Faisal Shahzad was trained by the Taliban? His skillz weren't mad (as colleague Tom Robbins points out), even if Shahzad himself is. Whether he was on a mission for the Taliban is still up in the air. If he is a r ... More >>

Today in Special Things: The Record-Breaker for Longest Awful Thing Ever

​What's been going on longer than the Vietnam War, but for less time than General Hospital?

Times Reporter, Held by Taliban, Freed in British Raid; Brit Soldier, Interpreter, Others Killed

​New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell was rescued by British forces from his Taliban captors in Afghanistan this morning. Farrell had been taken by the Taliban on Saturday as he investigated an airstrike site near Kunduz. Killed in the raid were a British Special Forces soldier, Farrell's i ... More >>

A Conversation With Afghan Star Director Havana Marking

After three decades of Taliban rule, modernity is trickling into Afghanistan--and Afghan Star, Central Asia's version of American Idol, is at the cultural center of it. The TV show not only invites any age, race, or gender to audition, but also gives citizens a taste of democracy by allowing them ... More >>

Afghan Star Documents American Idol Translated to a Closed Society

Taliban in Lipstick: Jihadis Posed for Rather Gay "Passport Photos"

In December 2001, just after the American invasion, Magnum Studios photographer Thomas Dworzak arrived in Afghanistan. The Taliban had banned all photography that showed people: such images, they said, were prohibited by the Koran. There was one exception to the rule: men (and only men) were allowe ... More >>

Letters

Afghaniscrewed: How I Spent My Fall Vacation

Freedom Fighter or Terrorist? The US Can't Decide about Bangladeshi Immigrant Sachin Karmakar

Welcome to America, freedom fighter. Now go stuff yourself.

Journalist's sentence still makes no sense

Collateral damage in Wall Street, Afghan wars

Daily Flog: Kicking the habit but blindly drunk, hounded by Afghans, woofed at by Hillary

U.S. Ends Afghan Hostage Crisis

Daily Flog 8/4/08: Dumping patients, probing Mary-Kate, shooting nose-biting suspect, ratting out cops

Good News (Bad News): Iraq War Money Runs Out. (More is on the Way.)

Good News (Bad News): Iraq War Money Runs Out. (More is on the Way.)

Journalist Held At Guantanamo Freed After Six Years Without Charges

Bad Guys at Ground Zero

Marcher: 'I'm Left With Nothing'

The Roberts file

The Supreme Court nominee: A conservative lawyer in King Dubya's court

Look Back in Anger: Self-Pitying Drunks Drown in Glib Alkie Romance

Disappearing Prisoners

Are they dead? Are they alive? Where is the media? Does anybody out there care?

Will Rice Stick?

If she brings up the Taliban, the whole damn mess could boil over

Families of 9-11 Victims Rally Against Bush Warmongering

Unholy Wars

Wanted: A Protest Movement for Progressive Hawks

Reviving Left Influence in a Time of Rampant Reaction

How We Lost Afghanistan

Fighting Terror on $1 Billion a Month

Gimme Danger

Drearily Awaiting Death on the Front Line

Return of the 'Good Warlord'

Ismail Khan Seeks Power in the New Afghanistan

The Mayor of Little Afghanistan

A Local Face in the Effort to Form an Interim Government in Afghanistan

Northern Alliance Massacres

U.S.-Backed Rebels Accused of Wholesale Slaughter as Taliban Retreat

What Women Want

Feminists Agonize Over War in Afghanistan

Post-Taliban Coalition Gains Momentum

Promising Democracy, Afghan Prince Plans U.S. Talks

Opium for the Masses

Tales of the Afghan Drug Trade

Afghan Plan Unravels

Northern Alliance Tells U.S. to Butt Out

Iran Reports U.S. Ground Troops Inside Afghanistan

After the Taliban

Could a Coalition Government Withstand Afghan Rivalries?

Accidents Can Happen

Dead Civilians and Other Minor Risks of War

Our Fragile Ally

Pakistan Teeters on Edge of Civil War

America's Battle Plans

Relying on Blind Faith

Media Assembles Fractured Picture of War

War Report

Houses Divided

Two Afghan Mosques in Flushing Worry in Attack Aftermath

Osama bin Laden: Our Man in Afghanistan

The Turncoat

The Accidental Operative

Richard Helms’s Afghani Niece Leads Corps of Taliban Reps