Aug 14, 2021
As Taliban insurgents sweep across Afghanistan, the assassination of a defiant district governor is a case study in loss. Source: Profile in courage: He defied the advancing Taliban, and paid with his...
Feb 1, 2021
A new women-led initiative in Afghanistan is working to break down the barriers to help both victims and perpetrators Source: The Guardian, Stefanie Glinski in Kabul, 1/29/21 ‘Violence starts at home’: the Afghan women tackling domestic abuse at its...
Jun 3, 2020
US engagement has helped Trump but done little for Afghan civilians, as the brutal attack on a maternity hospital shows, says analyst Kate Clark […] Source: The Guardian Newspaper, Opinion, Despite the ‘peace process’, Afghanistan’s anguish...
Dec 13, 2017
By Aram Roston, December 7, 2017, for BuzzFeed News Controversial private security tycoon Erik Prince has famously pitched an audacious plan to the Trump administration: Hire him to privatize the war in Afghanistan using squads of “security contractors.”...
Dec 11, 2017
By Shashank Bengali, December 4, 2017, for The LA Times As U.S. warplanes flew above a cluster of villages where Islamic State militants were holed up in eastern Afghanistan, 11 people piled into a truck and drove off along an empty dirt track to escape what they...