Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 By Steve Coll Penguin, 695 pp., $29.95 “It’s hard to be an ally of the United ...

As the war on terrorism continues in Afghanistan, Chicago audiences who are curious about the military and political situation are being given six chances over the next two weeks to see “Jung [War]: ...

Until 1988, the United States at every turn blocked attempts to secure a negotiated settlement between the left-wing Peoples Democratic Party government in Afghanistan and sections of the right-wing ...

Taliban bureaucrats lamented their new positions in the government in a series of exclusive interviews with the Afghanistan Analysts Network. The interviews provided a comical window into the lives of ...

When Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced creation of yet another counter-IED Pentagon task force, he was clearly frustrated with the inability of the military, the intelligence agencies and ...

On June 17, when French police arrested 165 reported members of exiled Iranian military group Mujaheddin e-Khalq (MEK), including the wife of its charismatic leader, they further convoluted the ...

A narrative documentary which follows its protagonists’ human and professional adventures: they are Gino Strada, a surgeon from the Emergency health organisation, who is accompanied by Ettore Mo, a ...

Seventeen declassified documents obtained in the Abbottabad raid that killed Osama bin Laden were published on Thursday by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC). The 175 pages of electronic letters and ...