Afghanistan: Peacekeepers for Afghanistan

What could have been happening in Afghanistan since 2002:   MALI: The U.N. Security Council is considering a draft resolution to approve the creation of a 12,600-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Mali starting July 1, which would be able to request the support of...

U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghan provinces is unfinished work

As an 11-year effort winds down, U.S. provincial reconstruction teams, or PRTs, have made gains but have also left infrastructure that is incomplete, unsustainable or incompatible with local needs. LA Times, April 6, 2013 CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the...

Afghanistan After the War Is peace possible?, Ahmed Rashid

The New Republic BY AHMED RASHID MARCH 28, 2013 Will Afghanistan, which has been at war since 1978—thirty-four years, or a period longer than the two world wars and the intervening years combined—finally see a minimal kind of peace before American forces leave next...