Afghanistan

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Three New Yorkers Killed In Afghanistan

Bad news to report from America's longest war: three New York soldiers were killed in Afghanistan last week.Governor Andrew Cuomo has directed that flags be flown at half-staff on Wednesday to commemorate the fallen soldiers, who were killed by an improvised explosive device in Paktiya Province, Afg ... More >>

Senator Gillibrand Calls For Troop Drawdown From Afghanistan In Manhattan

U.S. Senator from New York Kirsten Gillibrand appeared in her office in Manhattan today alongside several veterans who recently served to call for the expedited drawdown of troops in Afghanistan. "While our troops have admirably fulfilled the missions asked of them, we must step back and review our ... More >>

Urination Video Appalls The U.S. Military!

A supposed video of marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has pushed all the copper buttons of the military -- an organization that is conducted in the height of taste, as you know -- and they have let the world know that they are downright appalled. They have called t ... 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 >>

Love Is a Battlefield at the Human Rights Watch Film Fest

Is a 21-Year-Old Journalist to Blame For Burned Koran Killings in Afghanistan?

Pastor Terry Jones​There's a media story behind the tragic murders of 24 people in Afghanistan, killed amid riots against United Nations works and citizens of Afghanistan on account of the Koran burning ceremony held by Florida pastor Terry Jones. At his small southern church, Jones burned the ... More >>

Fall Guide: The Tricycle Theatre Invades With Its Epic History of Afghanistan

The Public Theater presents director Nicholas Kent's production of The Great Game

THINK BIG

The London Review of Books celebrates 30 years

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?

Obama's Afghan Surge Proves He's Trying to Lose, Say Rightbloggers

In his West Point speech on Tuesday, President Obama announced 30,000 fresh troops would be delivered to Afghanistan early next year. He also said that "after 18 months, our troops will begin to come home." "Begin to come home" is a vague term, perhaps purposefully so. In the 2007 surge, three a ... 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 >>

Letters

Afghaniscrewed: How I Spent My Fall Vacation

Afghan Elections Delayed, Iraq Candidates Murdered

Let's look in on our brothers-in-democracy in the Middle East. Afghanistan has postponed its elections due to "security and logistical concerns," says CNN. This isn't a short-term thing: they were scheduled for May, and will now take place in August -- though a parliamentary spokesman says they're " ... More >>

Cargo 200 an Unflinching, Quasi-Comedic Portrait of 1984 Russia

Journalist's sentence still makes no sense

Collateral damage in Wall Street, Afghan wars

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

In Fright Race, Pakistan Grabs the Top Spot

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.)

Canadian Soldiers' Closed Door Policy

Books

Kabul Homebodies

The first Afghan theater company to perform in the States

Bloc Heads

Ugly natives and uglier Americans in Tom Bissell's fiction

My Goal Or Your Goal? Documenting the Biased Docmaker

Blow Up

Final Approach

Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Covert Operations

The Media Muzzled

Vietnam and Afghanistan Show why Limiting Press Access to War is Unpatriotic

Taliban Family Values

Vice Steps Out of the Closet in Afghanistan

Let Them Eat Teddy Bears

U.S. Watches Afghans Sink Into Starvation

Taliban Killed the Radio Stars

In Afghanistan, Any Battle Over Music Is a Battle Over National Identity

Mujahideen Come Home

Things Change—and Remain the Same—in Post-Taliban Jalalabad

Nation

Blood on the Tracks

U.S. Allies in Afghanistan Left Trail of Atrocities

Casualties of Global War

Post-Taliban Coalition Gains Momentum

Promising Democracy, Afghan Prince Plans U.S. Talks

Afghan Plan Unravels

Northern Alliance Tells U.S. to Butt Out

After the Taliban

Could a Coalition Government Withstand Afghan Rivalries?

The God of Fossil Fuels

Russian Paper: Deal Worked Out For Post-War Afghanistan

Why They Hate Us

Voices From Pakistan

Relying on Blind Faith

Media Assembles Fractured Picture of War

The Empire Strikes Back

War vs. Peace: Novelists and Essayists Tell the 'Voice' Where They Stand

The New Terrorism

How the Cold War and Its Aftermath Fueled Islamic Militancy

Houses Divided

Two Afghan Mosques in Flushing Worry in Attack Aftermath

The New World Order

Terrorist Attacks Redraw the Global Map

The Accidental Operative

Richard Helms’s Afghani Niece Leads Corps of Taliban Reps

Damage Control