Afghanistan

Afghanistan Articles

• Remember Afghanistan?
  Mar. 8, 2004 | By Tim McGirk/Kabul and Michael Ware/Kandahar
  Tied down in Iraq, the U.S. is still struggling to pacify the country, root out the Taliban and snare bin Laden. Inside the other war
• My Opinion of the Russians Has Changed Most Drastically
  Jan. 14, 1980
  COVER STORIES So saying, Carter angrily halts grain sales and postpones SALT in a series of retaliations against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan It was as though a time warp had plunged the world back into an earlier and more dangerous era. Soviet divisions had swarmed across the border of a neighboring country and turned ...
• NATO: Alliance Of the Unwilling
  Mar. 26, 2008 | By Andrew Purvis
  Amid arguments over troop deployments in Afghanistan and with defense spending continuing to decline in much of Europe, NATO faces fundamental questions about its role
• Warlord or Druglord?
  Feb. 8, 2007 | By Bill Powell
  An Afghan warlord, accused drug kingpin, American informant. Inside the Afghan drug war
• The Soviets: Coups and Killings in Kabul
  Nov. 22, 1982
  A KGB defector tells how Afghanistan became Brezhnev's Viet Nam Vladimir Kuzichkin, 35, a former KGB major whose presence in Britain was announced by the British government last month, has given an extraordinary account of Soviet involvement in Afghanistan—perhaps the greatest blot on Brezhnev's career—as seen by the KGB. Kuzichkin, who defected to the British ...

Afghanistan Blog Posts

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  Picturing Americans at War in Afghanistan
  Oct. 2, 2009
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  Afghanistan Times
  Mar. 13, 2009
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  Gates: Russia Trying to "Have it Both Ways" in Afghanistan
  Feb. 19, 2009
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  The Woe in Afghanistan
  Oct. 6, 2008
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  Obama's First Interview from Afghanistan
  Jul. 20, 2008

Afghanistan Photo Essays & Graphics

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  Training Afghanistan's Police Force

  In Afghanistan's Ferah province, the nation's police trains with US military to make Afghanistan a safer place — both for civilians and officers Photographs for TIME by Adam Ferguson
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  New Exhibit Examines Art in War-Torn Afghanistan

  Living Traditions , an exhibition of contemporary pieces from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, opened in Kabul in October

Afghanistan Videos

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  Ze Frank: The History of Afghanistan in 3 Minutes

  Ze digs deep into the history of the 'Graveyard of Empires' to offer a condensed timeline of Afghanistan from Genghis Khan to 9/11
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  The Soldier's Experience: Iraq vs. Afghanistan

  Soldiers who have served in both Afghanistan and Iraq compare the two countries. They say there is one key difference

Afghanistan TIME Covers

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