Nov 9, 2017
To get something done in Afghanistan, you need to know Scott Guggenheim. But even the ultimate fixer isn’t sure anyone can solve the country’s problems. By May Jeong, November/December 2017, for Politico On November 9, 2016, Scott Guggenheim, a longtime American...
Nov 7, 2017
By Nicole Valentini, 26 October 2017, for Global Voices On an autumn night in 1994, the Taliban were getting ready to conquer Afghanistan. Only two years before, a terrible civil war had broken out among the different Mujahideen factions that had defeated the...
Oct 30, 2017
By: Ayaz Gul, October 26, 2017, for VOA News ISLAMABAD — America’s security “failures” in Afghanistan are evident from events of the week when visiting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson could not move out of a U.S. military base and invited...
Oct 27, 2017
By: Scott Peterson, October 26, 2017, for CSMonitor A SHIFT IN THOUGHT – The once mostly Pashtun insurgency is broadening its ranks, amending its tactics, and seeking political relevance, even as it advances its campaign of violence and intimidation against...
Sep 17, 2017
By: Mattie Kahn, August 28, 2017, for Elle Last week, hours after President Trump announced in primetime that he would—despite his initial instincts—recommit American troops and resources to the war in Afghanistan, news broke that it was this 1972 photo that had...
