FEBRUARY 2012
"Moderate" Taliban: A wolf in sheep's clothing?
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
02/10/2012
The 80 percent solution
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
02/08/2012
The perils of leaderless jihad
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
02/07/2012
Punishing Pakistan is not the way to go
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
02/03/2012
Can the Afghan economy be saved?
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
02/03/2012
Putting the Afghans in charge
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
02/02/2012
JANUARY 2012
Terrorists in Love
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
01/30/2012
Small wars, big prices
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
01/27/2012
A Taliban ‘Rope-a-Dope’ Strategy?
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
01/25/2012
Imran Khan's New Pakistan
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
01/25/2012
Afghan solutions for Afghan women
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
01/13/2012
What does Pervez Musharraf want?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
01/12/2012
The AfPak Channel Top 10
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
01/03/2012
DECEMBER 2011
The real shame in Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/21/2011
Keeping control of bad choices
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/20/2011
This isn't the COIN you're looking for
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/19/2011
Border wars and brinkmanship
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
12/16/2011
COIN is dead, long live the COIN
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/16/2011
Point and shoot elections
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
12/15/2011
The jihad will be YouTubed
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
12/15/2011
Graveyard of empiricism
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
12/13/2011
Actions speak louder than words
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
12/13/2011
The TTP tango
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/12/2011
The cost of speaking out
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
12/12/2011
History lessons from Karbala
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
12/11/2011
On the road to recovery
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
12/09/2011
Amidst war, an Afghan renaissance
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
12/09/2011
From bad to worse
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/06/2011
Don't hold back with Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/06/2011
Stumbling over Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/05/2011
Much ado about nothing
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
12/04/2011
Calling Pakistan's boycott bluff
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
12/04/2011
Building on the past, securing the future
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/04/2011
Bonn, 10 Years On - An FP Roundtable
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/03/2011
Afghanistan's bleak horizon
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/03/2011
The big loser at Bonn will be Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/03/2011
A decade of mistakes
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/03/2011
The elephants in the room at Bonn
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/03/2011
The problems and promise of Bonn II
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/03/2011
No more proxy wars in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/03/2011
Peace through water
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/02/2011
Progress or pretend?
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
12/01/2011
NOVEMBER 2011
Aiding Without Abetting
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/30/2011
What's behind the furor in Pakistan?
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
11/29/2011
Is there hope for Afghanistan?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/29/2011
Elections for the elite
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
11/28/2011
The TTP's hybrid insurgency
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/23/2011
Ms. Rehman goes to Washington
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
11/23/2011
Out with the old, but what of the new?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/22/2011
Missing the forest for the memos
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
11/22/2011
"Memogate" claims its first victim
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/22/2011
Afghan women are not "pet rocks"
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
11/21/2011
Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/18/2011
Come together, right now - over trade
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/17/2011
The limits of regional cooperation in Asia
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/16/2011
Strengthening ties in South Asia
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/16/2011
Afghan views on the Loya Jirga
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
11/16/2011
The law and politics behind Afghanistan's "traditional" Loya Jirga
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/15/2011
Reflecting on Afghan public opinion
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/15/2011
Bonn and beyond: Afghanistan's uncertain future
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
11/14/2011
Have the Taliban changed their tune?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/10/2011
The Afghan Solution
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/08/2011
India-Pakistan trade: The MFN breakthrough
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/04/2011
Pakistan and the IMF
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/04/2011
The Black Banners
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
11/03/2011
Evicting the Taliban from Swat
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
11/02/2011
OCTOBER 2011
Afghanistan's missed opportunities and new choices
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/31/2011
Explaining the rise of Imran Khan
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/31/2011
China passes the buck in Afghanistan
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/28/2011
Pakistan's radical reputation
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/28/2011
The fine line between culture and law in Afghanistan
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/27/2011
Afghan Local Police: when the solution becomes the problem
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/27/2011
Indian-Afghan strategic partnership: perceptions from the ground
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/26/2011
The United States, Pakistan, and the perils of brinkmanship
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/24/2011
Pakistan's most powerful weapon
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/21/2011
Death of an ideologue
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/21/2011
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kashmir: A grand bargain?
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/20/2011
Playing with fire
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/20/2011
Killing Rabbani
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/19/2011
Cross-border contagions
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/14/2011
Night raids no way forward
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/14/2011
Karachi's clan conflicts
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/13/2011
Time to tackle torture is now
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/11/2011
The capture of Mali Khan
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/10/2011
Afghanistan and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/06/2011
Mapping U.S.-Pakistan Relations: Past, Present, and Future
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/06/2011
India's Strategic Calculus in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/06/2011
Killing al-Qaeda?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/06/2011
The Ideological Failings of the Afghan War
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/06/2011
The Past as Prologue, Without Afghan Political Reforms
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/06/2011
Struggling to Build Afghan Security
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/06/2011
Afghanistan at a Critical Juncture
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/06/2011
The Afghan National Security Forces: A Progress Report
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/06/2011
Lessons From the 9/11 Wars
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/06/2011
10 Years of War - An FP Roundtable
10/06/2011
The not-so-great game
10/05/2011
Daily Brief: India, Afghanistan sign strategic pact
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/05/2011
Pakistan's power woes
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/04/2011
Daily Brief: U.S. held secret meeting with Haqqanis
POSTED BY JENNIFER ROWLAND
10/04/2011
SEPTEMBER 2011
Pulling U.S.-Pakistan policy out of the shadows
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/30/2011
Rolling back the Taliban in Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/27/2011
The militant pipeline
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/27/2011
Is reconciliation finished in Afghanistan?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/26/2011
Human rights and the Afghan security transition
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/26/2011
Daily brief: American killed at CIA Kabul station
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/26/2011
Dealing with the Haqqani Network
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/23/2011
Pakistan's real terrorism problem
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/23/2011
Counterstrike
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/23/2011
The post-Rabbani Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/22/2011
Reconsidering reconciliation in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/21/2011
Massacre in Mastung
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/21/2011
Rabbani's death and Afghanistan's future
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/20/2011
What Egyptians mean by democracy
POSTED BY CASEY.MARYE
09/20/2011
The 9/11 Wars
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/19/2011
Dengue fever: Pakistan's recurring nightmare
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/19/2011
Tricky questions and troop transfers in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/16/2011
The Wars of Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/15/2011
Tilting toward Tehran?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/15/2011
The British trail to the Afghan jihad
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/14/2011
Decade of fear
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/12/2011
Al-Qaeda loses its "renaissance man"
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/09/2011
Forgetting Afghanistan's women
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/09/2011
Berman unveils his foreign aid reform bill
POSTED BY JOSH ROGIN
09/08/2011
The new Mullah Omar?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/07/2011
Lashkar-e-Taiba's American connections
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/06/2011
The battle for Pakistan's soul
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/01/2011
AUGUST 2011
The death of Atiyah
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/29/2011
Checking the spread of AIDS in Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/25/2011
'Clearing' Kurram
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/25/2011
Karachi's deeper problems
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/23/2011
Telling the whole story
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/23/2011
Fixing Pakistan's broken tribal laws
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/22/2011
Inside "Slackistan"
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/15/2011
A new dawn for Pakistan's tribal areas?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/12/2011
The Pakistan-China spat that wasn't
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/12/2011
A statement from the family of Jared Day
08/10/2011
Karzai blinks in Afghan election crisis
08/10/2011
Cables from Kabul
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/08/2011
Body bags in Baluchistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/04/2011
Lashkar-e-Taiba's rise, before Mumbai
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/03/2011
Taking drones to court
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/01/2011
Reforming Karachi's police
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/01/2011
JULY 2011
India and Pakistan's surprisingly successful negotiations
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/28/2011
Karzai's game
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/26/2011
The Triple Agent
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/25/2011
Talib al-Britani
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/22/2011
Fighting a 50 percent solution in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/21/2011
Paktia's lost promise
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/21/2011
Afghanistan is now India's problem
07/19/2011
Assassin Nation
07/19/2011
In Pakistani politics, it's still a man's world
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/19/2011
The Haqqani Network and al-Qaeda
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/19/2011
Afghanistan's civilians in the crosshairs
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/14/2011
Retreat, discontent, and misunderstanding: France in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/14/2011
Protecting Afghan sovereignty
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/14/2011
Kandahar's looming tribal struggle
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/14/2011
A meaningless aid cutoff
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/13/2011
The hidden perils of covert action
07/13/2011
The problem wasn't just AWK
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/13/2011
Après AWK le déluge?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/12/2011
Who will really miss Ahmed Wali Karzai?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/12/2011
Pakistan's demographic dilemma
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/11/2011
Breaking Karachi's cycle of violence
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/08/2011
Karzai's Court
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/07/2011
Bringing Kashmir closer to Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/07/2011
Calling the Taliban to account
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/06/2011
Karachi's violence and the war in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/05/2011
JUNE 2011
Failed reconciliation in Khost
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/30/2011
Negotiations after the Intercontinental
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/29/2011
Trouble in Pakistan's heartland
06/29/2011
The growing danger in Kabul
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/29/2011
The road home from Kabul
06/27/2011
Taming a "Strange Land"
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/27/2011
A grassroots democracy for Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/27/2011
What Obama's speech will mean for Afghan women
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/22/2011
Does Karachi need the Rangers?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/22/2011
Has Pakistan's military been infiltrated by extremists?
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
06/21/2011
Where will Zawahiri take al-Qaeda?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/20/2011
The Pakistani Taliban's media jihad
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/17/2011
The Zawahiri era begins
06/16/2011
Exeunt Pakistan experts, pursued by bear
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/14/2011
Seeing the real enemy in Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/14/2011
Pakistan's bubbling water crisis
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/13/2011
A death on screen
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/10/2011
"Left with nothing": The state of Pakistan's minorities
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/10/2011
Zawahiri speaks
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/09/2011
Bridging the India-Pakistan divide on Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/09/2011
Evaluating U.S. foreign assistance to Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/09/2011
The mysterious death of Ilyas Kashmiri
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/08/2011
The lost villages
06/08/2011
Al Qaeda's toughest task
06/08/2011
Pakistan's Black Pearl
06/08/2011
The future of al-Qaeda
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/06/2011
Missionaries of jihad
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/03/2011
Negotiating Afghanistan's future
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/02/2011
Karzai's civilian casualties ultimatum
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/02/2011
A strong civilian assistance strategy for Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/01/2011
A new strategy for aid to Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/01/2011
MAY 2011
Angels of death
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/31/2011
Peace with the Taliban? Don't count on it
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
05/27/2011
Pakistan's nuclear poker bet
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/27/2011
Replacing bin Laden
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/26/2011
Pakistan's brewing sectarian war
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/26/2011
The cost of Pakistan's double game
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/25/2011
The escalating war against the Pakistani state
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/25/2011
Osama's Oil Obsession
05/25/2011
The antisocial network
05/25/2011
The Gul under the bed
05/25/2011
Try to see it my way
POSTED BY CHRISTINE FAIR
05/24/2011
The young and the betrothed
05/20/2011
A groom's tale
05/20/2011
Between mosque and military
05/20/2011
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Mumbai, and the ISI
05/20/2011
Saif al-Adel and the death of Daniel Pearl
05/19/2011
NATO in Libya is a challenge to bin Laden's ideology
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/18/2011
Bin Laden's death and the al Qaeda debates, part three
POSTED BY MARY HABECK
05/18/2011
The myth of nuclear energy in Pakistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/17/2011
Raging at Rawalpindi
POSTED BY SHUJA NAWAZ
05/17/2011
Caught in the crossfire
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/16/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: Pakistan's Urdu media reacts
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/16/2011
Daily brief: Pakistani intel chief bashes U.S. in marathon parliamentary briefing
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/16/2011
The white man's jihad
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/13/2011
War Dog II
05/13/2011
The fight goes on
05/13/2011
The few, the proud, the unready
05/13/2011
Rotten to the core
05/13/2011
Afghanistan's ongoing election drama
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/12/2011
Daily brief: U.S. finds bin Laden "diary"
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/12/2011
Targeted killings and two worlds in Afghanistan: inside the Takhar attack
05/11/2011
Daily brief: Reports: U.S. warned Pakistan on possible bin Laden incursions
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/11/2011
"Kill Capture": A live chat with PBS' Frontline
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/10/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: Pakistan's militant milieu
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/06/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: inside the Pakistani Taliban
POSTED BY DAUD KHATTAK
05/06/2011
War Dog
05/06/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: what now for Afghan reconciliation?
05/06/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: Pakistan's investigation
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/06/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: Salvaging the U.S.-Pakistan relationship
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/05/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: Why Obama chose SEALs, not drones
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/05/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: Abbottabad and international law
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/04/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: In Pakistan, many questions and few answers
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/04/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: The U.S. shouldn't hold Pakistan's military against Pakistan's civilians
POSTED BY CHRISTINE FAIR
05/04/2011
Crossroads: Can We Win in Afghanistan?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/04/2011
We told you so
05/03/2011
Osama the Icon
05/03/2011
Manhunt
05/03/2011
Think again: Al Qaeda
05/03/2011
One stop shopping for FP's Osama bin Laden coverage
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/03/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: Business as usual won’t do in Pakistan and Afghanistan
POSTED BY BRIAN KATULIS
05/03/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: The U.S. and Pakistan are still stuck with each other
05/03/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: Osama was the least of Pakistan's problems
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/02/2011
Osama bin Who?
05/02/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: The Internet jihadis react
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/02/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: The future of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship
POSTED BY SHUJA NAWAZ
05/02/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: The legacy of the War on Terror
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/02/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: What does his death mean for America's longest-ever war?
05/02/2011
The bin Laden aftermath: Pakistan caught in a web of lies
POSTED BY ARIF RAFIQ
05/02/2011
Don't get cocky, America
POSTED BY SUZANNE MERKELSON
05/02/2011
OBL is dead, al Qaeda isn't
05/02/2011
Osama's dead, but how much does it matter?
05/02/2011
Daily brief: Taliban begin fighting season in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
05/02/2011
APRIL 2011
Pakistan's Persian Gulf balancing act
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/28/2011
Daily brief: Obama war team reshuffle to be announced today
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/28/2011
Daily brief: Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA: reports
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/27/2011
AfPak Behind the Lines: Pakistani TV through the years
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/25/2011
Daily brief: Hundreds of Taliban escape from Kandahar prison
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/25/2011
The U.S.-Pakistan stalemate
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/23/2011
Daily brief: 'Restrepo' director and a photographer killed in Libya
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/21/2011
Pakistan's Islamist tightrope
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/19/2011
Drone strikes aren't the real issue in U.S.-Pakistan relations
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/18/2011
'Three Cups of Tea': Served with a grain of salt?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/17/2011
Choking off Pakistan-U.S. relations?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/15/2011
FP EXPLAINER: Does the CIA need a country's permission to spy on it?
04/14/2011
Two to tango
04/14/2011
The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/14/2011
Daily brief: Pakistan formally protests U.S. drone strike
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/14/2011
Pakistan wants to cut CIA drone strikes, personnel
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/13/2011
Daily brief: U.S. drone strikes resume in Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/13/2011
Pakistan: A Hard Country
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/11/2011
Talks with the Taliban in Pakistan?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
04/07/2011
Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade
04/04/2011
Explaining the inexplicable: murder at Mazar
POSTED BY CHRISTINE FAIR
04/04/2011
The dead of Mazar
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
04/03/2011
MARCH 2011
Moving past Mohali: what next for India and Pakistan?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/31/2011
Al Qaeda responds to CNN
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/31/2011
Ignoring Baluchistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/30/2011
Daily brief: Senior Indonesian terrorist arrested in Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/30/2011
Changing the subject, from war to cricket
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/29/2011
A response on the training of Afghan Forces
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/29/2011
A more important Final Four match
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/29/2011
Karachi awash with blood
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/28/2011
It takes two to talk: reading the Century Foundation report
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
03/24/2011
Britain's camera-shy jihadis
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/24/2011
Daily brief: U.S. soldier sentenced to 24 years for killing Afghan civilians
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/24/2011
Cricket shines in Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/23/2011
How to end the war in Afghanistan?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/23/2011
Transition to nowhere: The limits of "Afghanization"
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/22/2011
Why Afghanistan is far from hopeless
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
03/18/2011
There Is No Neutral
03/18/2011
Pakistan's social media landscape
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/18/2011
Pakistan's famous landmarks: What's in a name?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/17/2011
Behind the scenes of Raymond Davis's release
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/16/2011
Daily brief: American CIA contractor in Pakistan freed
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/16/2011
General Petraeus's War
POSTED BY SUZANNE MERKELSON
03/15/2011
My Embed with a Warlord
POSTED BY SUZANNE MERKELSON
03/15/2011
Spy Games
POSTED BY SUZANNE MERKELSON
03/15/2011
Beating Back the Taliban
POSTED BY REBECCA FRANKEL
03/15/2011
The undeclared AfPak war
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/15/2011
Pakistan's broken economy
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/15/2011
Pakistan's Islamists take center-stage
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/11/2011
Talking to the Taliban
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/10/2011
Spy for a spy: the CIA-ISI showdown over Raymond Davis
POSTED BY CHRISTINE FAIR
03/10/2011
How Obama Lost Karzai
03/09/2011
The war over Afghan civilian casualties
POSTED BY ERICA GASTON
03/08/2011
Fighting Pakistan's lingering polio problem
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/03/2011
Pakistan's blasphemy laws: a history of violence
03/02/2011
The cost of cowardice
03/02/2011
Pakistan's blasphemy law strikes again
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/02/2011
Inside the Taliban Shuffle
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/02/2011
Daily brief: Pakistan minority affairs minister assassinated
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/02/2011
The U.S.-Pakistan relationship in disarray
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
03/01/2011
FEBRUARY 2011
Ailing Aid: Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
02/25/2011
Al Qaeda the loser in Arab revolutions
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
02/25/2011
Help Pakistan help itself
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/25/2011
Are we being spun on the war in Afghanistan? Of course we are.
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
02/25/2011
Ailing aid
02/24/2011
Pakistan couldn't give Davis immunity even if it wanted to
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
02/23/2011
Diplomatic duplicity
POSTED BY CHRISTINE FAIR
02/18/2011
A day at the theater with the Pentagon
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
02/18/2011
The dwindling Kashmir-Britain militant pipeline
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/17/2011
A Haqqani-brokered peace in Kurram agency?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
02/16/2011
Raymond Davis and the cost of immunity
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/15/2011
Baluchistan: Pakistan's other war
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/15/2011
A Tahrir effect in Kabul?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
02/14/2011
Pakistan: under attack from within
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
02/10/2011
Afghan perspectives on "democracy"
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
02/09/2011
Actually, Karzai is right about PRTs
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/08/2011
Repeat after me: Pakistan is not Egypt
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/08/2011
The U.S.-Pakistan F-16 fiasco
POSTED BY CHRISTINE FAIR
02/03/2011
What Pakistan needs to fight extremism
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
02/02/2011
Will we ever find Bin Laden? Don't count on it
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
02/01/2011
Broken justice
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/01/2011
JANUARY 2011
Equality in the eyes of the law in Pakistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
01/31/2011
Al Qaeda loses bridge to the West
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
01/28/2011
Pakistan's war against polio
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
01/25/2011
Election aftermath and the rule of law in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
01/21/2011
Pakistan's political crisis: The limits of U.S. leverage
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
01/20/2011
The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
01/18/2011
What Pakistan did right
POSTED BY CHRISTINE FAIR
01/18/2011
The mounting public health crisis in Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
01/14/2011
Dangerous aid in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
01/12/2011
The problems that need fixing in Obama's Pakistan plan
POSTED BY BRIAN KATULIS
01/12/2011
False choices in Afghanistan
POSTED BY CHRISTINE FAIR
01/11/2011
Pakistan's shifting religious battles
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
01/07/2011
Salmaan Taseer and the Punjabi Taliban
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
01/05/2011
Salmaan Taseer, last man standing
POSTED BY SABA IMTIAZ
01/05/2011
Taseer's murder another sign of the dysfunctional Pakistani state
POSTED BY ANDREW SWIFT
01/04/2011
Pakistan's dangerous blasphemy laws claim the governor of Punjab
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
01/04/2011
DECEMBER 2010
A mineral fund for Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/20/2010
Bringing Benazir Bhutto's story to film
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/17/2010
The Generals' Victory
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/16/2010
Afghanistan in review
12/16/2010
Can economics help bring peace to Afghanistan?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/16/2010
Afghanistan one year later: Tactical success without strategic progress
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/16/2010
A future Afghan strategy should place political objectives first
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/16/2010
The good, the bad, and the ugly in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/16/2010
Al Qaeda in Iraq's Swedish connections
POSTED BY BRIAN FISHMAN
12/13/2010
What to do with Pakistan's HEU?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/13/2010
Trickling home to South Waziristan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/10/2010
Money alone won't bring Afghanistan security
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/08/2010
Anne of leaked cables and the myth of infinite American influence in Pakistan
POSTED BY ARIF RAFIQ
12/07/2010
Gen. Nick Carter: '2014 seems a very long time away indeed'
12/07/2010
Blown Away
POSTED BY ANDREW SWIFT
12/06/2010
Bin Laden's lonely crusade
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
12/03/2010
The Pakistani backlash you haven't heard about
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
12/02/2010
Ghazni's election drama: It's the system
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
12/02/2010
Stopping regional interference in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
12/01/2010
NOVEMBER 2010
Navigating the China-Pakistan-India-U.S. relationships
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/30/2010
Counterinsurgency study is much more than a checklist
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/24/2010
Fake Taliban, real embarrassment
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
11/23/2010
Afghanistan: What to watch
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
11/22/2010
Budgeting NATO's future
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/19/2010
There's no checklist for counterinsurgency
POSTED BY CHARLES HOMANS
11/18/2010
AfPak Behind the Lines: night raids
11/18/2010
Coalition violence in southern Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/17/2010
The messy end-game of Afghanistan's elections
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/16/2010
Pakistan's simmering Swat Valley
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
11/15/2010
Karachi's newest threat
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/12/2010
The grammar of politics in South Asia
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/11/2010
Missed opportunities in Kandahar
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/10/2010
War of words: Describing success in southern Afghanistan
POSTED BY REBECCA FRANKEL
11/05/2010
Kashmir protests go digital
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/04/2010
Russia returns to Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
11/03/2010
OCTOBER 2010
The looming challenges in Pak-U.S. relations
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/29/2010
Drowning humanitarian aid
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/27/2010
More airstrikes won't help in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/26/2010
India in Afghanistan, part I: strategic interests, regional concerns
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/26/2010
Losing legitimacy after Afghanistan's elections
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/25/2010
Al Qaeda's media plays follow the leader
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/25/2010
Pakistan after the floods
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/22/2010
Playing politics with Pakistan's flood relief
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/22/2010
Karachi's downward spiral
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/22/2010
Pakistan and the United States: frenemies in need can be friendsindeed
POSTED BY ARIF RAFIQ
10/20/2010
The big business of kidnapping in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/20/2010
Why the U.S. can't find bin Laden
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
10/19/2010
Another militia creation gone wrong
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/18/2010
Confronting civilian casualties in Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/14/2010
General Petraeus's ambitions
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
10/13/2010
Granta goes to Pakistan
10/12/2010
The real question about Pakistan's border closure
POSTED BY CHRISTINE FAIR
10/08/2010
Bob Woodward's missing Afghan perspective
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/06/2010
America's image problem in Pakistan
10/05/2010
AfPak Behind the Lines: Afghanistan's elections
10/04/2010
Scoring own goals in Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
10/01/2010
General Musharraf's return
POSTED BY SHUJA NAWAZ
10/01/2010
SEPTEMBER 2010
Are times a-changin' in Pakistan?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/30/2010
Why Osama bin Laden still matters
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/28/2010
Empire going mad
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/28/2010
You would cry too: In defense of Hamid Karzai
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
09/28/2010
The real injustice in Pakistan isn't the conviction of Aafia Siddiqui
POSTED BY SABA IMTIAZ
09/24/2010
The perils of reporting in Pakistan
09/24/2010
Taliban strategy comes full circle
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
09/22/2010
Arithmetic on the frontier
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/22/2010
Militants thrive on Pakistan's military failures
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/21/2010
Afghanistan's elections: let's talk turnout
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
09/20/2010
Speculation about Afghanistan's election
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
09/20/2010
Not at the forefront of flood relief
POSTED BY CHRISTINE FAIR
09/20/2010
All together now: Afghanistan is not Switzerland
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
09/17/2010
Perspectives on Afghanistan's parliamentary elections
09/17/2010
What the new Zawahiri tape means
POSTED BY BRIAN FISHMAN
09/15/2010
Rebuilding Pakistan the right way
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/15/2010
Afghanistan's elections: political parties at the fringes again
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
09/13/2010
An open letter to Osama bin Laden
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/10/2010
New attacks stun Pakistan
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
09/10/2010
AfPak Behind the Lines: Pakistan's political scene
09/03/2010
Why the West should care about Afghan election fraud
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
09/02/2010
AUGUST 2010
Flood tides
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
08/30/2010
Thinking patterns of Pakistan's youth
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/30/2010
Militants on the move in Pakistan?
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/27/2010
From the floods, Pakistan's next generation emerges
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/26/2010
Tough times for Pakistan's secular leaders
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/23/2010
Daily brief: floodwaters to stay until the end of August
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/19/2010
The flood in Pakistan and U.S. strategy
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
08/18/2010
Daily brief: Kerry delivers message to Karzai
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/18/2010
Daily brief: Gates may retire next year
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/17/2010
Daily brief: drone strike hits North Waziristan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/16/2010
Daily brief: World Bank to give $900 million for Pakistan flood relief
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/13/2010
Daily brief: Petraeus wants more time in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/12/2010
The problem of "population protection"
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/11/2010
The India-Pakistan dialogue moves forward
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/11/2010
Daily brief: German army plans fall Afghan offensive
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/11/2010
Keeping promises
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
08/10/2010
Forgetting FATA reform
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/10/2010
Daily brief: civilian casualties spike in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/10/2010
Karachi's complex culture of violence
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/09/2010
Daily brief: 10 aid workers murdered in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/09/2010
Beyond a military solution for Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/06/2010
Daily brief: NATO claims deadly airstrikes in Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/06/2010
Daily brief: explosion kills top Pakistani police official
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/05/2010
Dispatch: the politics of policing Kashmir
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/03/2010
Daily brief: violence rips through Karachi after shooting
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/03/2010
AfPak Behind the Lines: Pakistan's infrastructure
08/02/2010
Daily brief: floods kill over 1,100 in Pakistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
08/02/2010
JULY 2010
On the campaign trail in Afghanistan
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
07/30/2010
Pakistan in polling vs. Pakistan in practice
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
07/30/2010
Pakistan's special relationships
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
07/29/2010
Failing Pakistan's minorities
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/29/2010
Getting a grip on WikiLeaks
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/28/2010
Pakistan's non-reaction to Wikileaks
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
07/28/2010
AfPak Behind the Lines: Kashmir
07/28/2010
Daily brief: website leaks thousands of Afghan war docs
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/26/2010
Kayani, a man for many seasons
POSTED BY SHUJA NAWAZ
07/23/2010
The Kayani era continues
POSTED BY ARIF RAFIQ
07/23/2010
Osama's ghost
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/23/2010
Engaging Pakistan's moderate majority
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/22/2010
Keeping Karzai's feet to the fire
POSTED BY CAROLINE WADHAMS
07/21/2010
Going old school: U.S. Army Special Forces return to the villages
POSTED BY AUSTIN LONG
07/21/2010
Daily brief: Taliban behead Afghan police
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/21/2010
AfPak Behind the Lines: al-Qaeda in Iraq
07/20/2010
Meet Afghanistan's new intel boss
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/19/2010
Building, not buying trust in Pakistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
07/19/2010
Americans barely trust Obama on Afghanistan
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/19/2010
Reconciliation and women’s rights: easier said than done
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
07/16/2010
Without Tere Bin Laden
07/15/2010
Plots in Pakistan's press
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
07/15/2010
Afghanistan's politics should be local
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/14/2010
Voice from Kashmir
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
07/12/2010
AfPak Behind the Lines: southern Afghanistan
07/12/2010
The bogus debate over counterinsurgency
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
07/12/2010
Does Pakistan have a civilian strategy?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
07/09/2010
Pakistani politicians: fake it to make it
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
07/08/2010
Afghanistan's not-so-free press
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
07/07/2010
NATO's responsibility to Afghan civilians
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
07/07/2010
Reviewing "Restrepo" and the wars we fight
POSTED BY BRIAN KATULIS
07/06/2010
AfPak Behind the Lines: Iran in Afghanistan and Pakistan
07/06/2010
Pakistan's dueling drones debate
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
07/02/2010
Reviewing "Bhutto"
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
07/01/2010
Counting al-Qaeda
POSTED BY BRIAN FISHMAN
07/01/2010
Busting Pakistan's madrassa myth
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
07/01/2010
JUNE 2010
The Haqqanis and al-Qaeda
POSTED BY BRIAN FISHMAN
06/30/2010
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
POSTED BY ANDREW LEBOVICH
06/29/2010
AfPak Behind the Lines: Karzai's connections
06/28/2010
In command in Afghanistan
POSTED BY BRIAN FISHMAN
06/28/2010
Why Petraeus won't salvage this war
06/28/2010
General Petraeus's reality
POSTED BY SHUJA NAWAZ
06/24/2010
Is Pakistan a failed state? No.
06/24/2010
A 'do over' in Afghanistan?
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
06/24/2010
The general in his labyrinth
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
06/23/2010
West coast jihad
POSTED BY BRIAN FISHMAN
06/22/2010
AfPak Behind the Lines: Punjab's growing militant problem
06/22/2010
Uncivil-military relations
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
06/22/2010
Obama and his generals
POSTED BY PETER FEAVER
06/22/2010
A new, new Taliban front?
06/21/2010
Russia's dangerous fix
06/21/2010
Illusions in Punjab
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
06/19/2010
Hope in Helmand
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
06/18/2010
Coddling Pakistan's Islamists
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
06/17/2010
Coming fall 2010: 'The Bin Laden Hunter'?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
06/15/2010
Helmand: anatomy of a disaster
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
06/15/2010
AfPak Behind the Lines: Taliban reconciliation
06/14/2010
Is Afghanistan really the next El Dorado?
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
06/14/2010
The cloud in the sky
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
06/13/2010
Muddying the 'Taliban'
POSTED BY BRIAN FISHMAN
06/11/2010
Who will replace Saleh and Atmar?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
06/08/2010
In Pakistan's own backyard
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
06/07/2010
Afghanistan's fluffy peace jirga
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
06/04/2010
Fighting militancy with music
06/04/2010
The Afghan jungle's big beasts
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
06/04/2010
The challenge of Islam
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
06/03/2010
Why Afghanistan's Jirga Will Fail
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
06/02/2010
MAY 2010
Showtime in Kandahar
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/25/2010
Where was Faisal Shahzad?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/24/2010
Lessons from Faisal Shahzad
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/20/2010
Pakistan unfriends Facebook
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/19/2010
Exclusive: al Qaeda bomb-factory video
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/14/2010
President Karzai feels the love
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
05/12/2010
Faisal Shahzad and the Pakistan Problem
05/11/2010
Rolling out the red carpet for Karzai
POSTED BY BRIAN KATULIS
05/10/2010
The radicalization of Faisal Shahzad
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/07/2010
Slipping out the back door?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/07/2010
Don't be afraid of terrorism
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/07/2010
Terrorism tourism?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/07/2010
Shared responsibilities
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/07/2010
What if Faisal Shahzad became radicalized in the United States?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/07/2010
No more peace deals
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/07/2010
The Taliban's suspicion
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/07/2010
Pakistan and America: fast friends?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/07/2010
Close to home in Pakistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/07/2010
COIN confusion
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/06/2010
The case of Faisal Shahzad
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/04/2010
In a ditch
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/04/2010
Terror made in Pakistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/04/2010
The Times Square scare
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/03/2010
The undeath of Hakimullah
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
05/03/2010
APRIL 2010
Who killed the ex-ISI official?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/30/2010
Throwing acid on human rights
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/30/2010
The Crossing: homesick for nowhere
04/30/2010
The new, new face of the Pakistani Taliban?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/30/2010
Who is Hakimullah?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/29/2010
The Bhuttos and their books
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/27/2010
Secret no more
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/26/2010
What's in a name?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/26/2010
Inside Pakistan's tribal frontier: North Waziristan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/23/2010
Power plays in Pakistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/21/2010
What happened to the fence?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/21/2010
Who is the Swat Taliban's commander?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/21/2010
The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Pakistan's Tribal Regions
04/19/2010
What do Afghans make of Karzai these days?
POSTED BY ASMA NEMATI
04/16/2010
The million dollar question: Who killed Benazir?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/15/2010
Fashion week in Pakistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/14/2010
A province by any other name
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/14/2010
Karzai and confusion in Kabul
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/08/2010
The problems of night raids
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/08/2010
Not a daughter of Pakistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/07/2010
Motives behind the attack on U.S. consulate in Peshawar
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
04/05/2010
Re: Afghan corruption: Do as we say, not as we do
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
04/05/2010
Kandahar
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/02/2010
Hide and seek in the FATA
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/02/2010
Al Qaeda's Ground Zero
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/01/2010
Ghosts of corruption past
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/01/2010
Stabilization or crisis in Kandahar?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
04/01/2010
MARCH 2010
Love-all for Pakistan’s new favorite daughter
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/30/2010
Battlefield tourist
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/30/2010
Pakistan's child soldiers
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/29/2010
Obama's Afghan drop-in
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
03/29/2010
Give Pakistan a nuclear deal
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/26/2010
The U.S and Pakistan: It's All Talk
POSTED BY REBECCA FRANKEL
03/25/2010
Meanwhile, back in Kabul...
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
03/24/2010
Keep Guantanamo away from Afghanistan
POSTED BY KAYVAN FARZANEH
03/23/2010
Pakistan to America: What have you done for us lately?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/19/2010
Spotlight on North Waziristan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/18/2010
A new command structure in Afghanistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/18/2010
Out of the tribal areas and into the cities of Pakistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/15/2010
Pakistan's catch 22
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/15/2010
The ultimate measure of success in this war is the security of the Pakistani people
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/13/2010
Jihad Jane and 'homegrown terrorism'
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/12/2010
Burden sharing
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/11/2010
Kennedy: Washington press corps "despicable"
POSTED BY JOSHUA KEATING
03/10/2010
Gates's Afghanistan visit: The latest salvo in the battle for hearts and minds at home
POSTED BY PASSPORT ADMINISTRATOR
03/09/2010
A guide to recent militant arrests and deaths in Afghanistan and Pakistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/08/2010
Costanza meets Holbrooke
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
03/08/2010
Breaking down doors in Afghanistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/05/2010
Is North Waziristan next?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
03/04/2010
Al-Qaeda central: the definitive guide
03/03/2010
FEBRUARY 2010
Taliban attack on Mohammed's birthday
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
02/26/2010
Don't Call That Warlord a Warlord
02/25/2010
No more night terrors
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/23/2010
Kabul dispatch: Operation Moshtarak
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/22/2010
Protecting civilians and protecting troops in Afghanistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/19/2010
Are we taking it too easy on the Taliban?
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
02/18/2010
Musings about Marjah
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
02/17/2010
A word of caution about Mullah Baradar's capture
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/16/2010
Strategic withdrawal
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/16/2010
Capturing the Taliban's second-in-command
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
02/16/2010
Tear gas in Kashmir
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/12/2010
A new understanding for the U.S. and Pakistan?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/10/2010
Is Operation Moshtarak a fool’s mission?
POSTED BY NORINE MACDONALD
02/08/2010
A London fog on Afghanistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
02/05/2010
General McChrystal says we shouldn't believe him
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
02/05/2010
In Dostum’s Debt
POSTED BY BRIAN WILLIAMS
02/04/2010
The devil is in the details: Dissecting Karzai's plan to fix Afghanistan
POSTED BY NORINE MACDONALD
02/02/2010
JANUARY 2010
Death by drone?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
01/31/2010
Karzai's Taliban surprise
POSTED BY J ALEXANDER THIER
01/29/2010
Dead Aid for Afghanistan?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
01/27/2010
U.S. intelligence briefing: Taliban increasingly effective
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
01/26/2010
The London Afghanistan conference: seize the chance
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
01/25/2010
Osama to Obama: Palestine matters
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
01/24/2010
Politics, Karachi style
POSTED BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL
01/22/2010
Politics, Karachi style
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
01/22/2010
Calling all voters
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
01/15/2010
Hope has returned to Afghanistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
01/13/2010
A first look at Karzai's second choices
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
01/11/2010
Daily brief: most Afghans optimistic about the future, poll finds
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
01/11/2010
Slander
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
01/08/2010
The battle for Tora Bora
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
01/05/2010
Carnage in Lakki Marwat
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
01/05/2010
DECEMBER 2009
Making the world safe for (Chinese) investment
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
12/30/2009
The most important sociopolitical trend in Pakistan in the last decade
POSTED BY AHSAN BUTT
12/28/2009
The Year of Decision in Pakistan
POSTED BY SHUJA NAWAZ
12/17/2009
From my in box: more grounds for doubt about Afghanistan
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
12/16/2009
The confused fight against corruption
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
12/16/2009
How do Afghans tick?
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
12/16/2009
Fire in Kashmir
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
12/14/2009
Tete a tete with Hillary Clinton
POSTED BY HASSAN ABBAS
12/14/2009
To talk or not to talk: the Taliban’s internal divide
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
12/10/2009
A very high-ranking dog
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
12/10/2009
What Obama almost said
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
12/08/2009
Strategy and war in Pakistan and Afghanistan
POSTED BY AHSAN BUTT
12/08/2009
Another reason for 2011
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
12/07/2009
Marketing the U.S. in Pakistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
12/07/2009
About those civilian fatalities
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
12/04/2009
The Taliban letters
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
12/04/2009
Not just a Canadian problem
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
12/04/2009
Give peace talks a chance
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
12/04/2009
Goodnight Afghanistan, good morning Pakistan.
POSTED BY ARIF RAFIQ
12/02/2009
Think tanks go to the Pentagon
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
12/02/2009
The speech
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
12/02/2009
Obama failed to outline the way forward in Pakistan
POSTED BY BRIAN KATULIS
12/02/2009
Instant analysis of Obama's speech
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
12/02/2009
The view from Kabul
POSTED BY ASMA NEMATI
12/02/2009
Concerns about the civilian strategy in Afghanistan
POSTED BY CAROLINE WADHAMS
12/02/2009
A certain Obama, uncertain allies
POSTED BY SHUJA NAWAZ
12/02/2009
How President Obama decided on the Afghanistan strategy
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
12/01/2009
Steve Coll on strategy in Afghanistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
12/01/2009
What to listen for in Obama's speech
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
12/01/2009
NOVEMBER 2009
Afghan militias: the sorcerer’s apprentice’s genies
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
11/30/2009
Paying the police
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
11/30/2009
A sneak peek at the International Crisis Group's new Afghanistan report
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
11/24/2009
Counterinsurgency is a bloody, costly business
POSTED BY PAUL STANILAND
11/24/2009
Afghanistan's gray line
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
11/19/2009
Waiting for Karzai's inauguration...to be over
POSTED BY ASMA NEMATI
11/18/2009
More on what if we fail in Afghanistan?
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
11/18/2009
The war of leaks
POSTED BY MICHAEL INNES
11/17/2009
Building on 2 blunders: the dubious case for counterinsurgency
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
11/16/2009
What if we fail in Afghanistan?
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
11/16/2009
Put Osama bin Laden on trial
POSTED BY PAUL CRUICKSHANK
11/14/2009
A victory for the rule of law
POSTED BY SAHR MUHAMMEDALLY
11/13/2009
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
11/12/2009
"Decoding the New Taliban"
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
11/12/2009
The big impact of small footprints
POSTED BY THOMAS HEGGHAMMER
11/11/2009
Afghanistan is neither Vietnam nor Iraq
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
11/10/2009
AfPak experts advise Obama
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
11/09/2009
More talking, not more troops
POSTED BY GRAEME SMITH
11/09/2009
Prioritize in Afghanistan
POSTED BY J ALEXANDER THIER
11/09/2009
Nearly Anywhere Terrorists Operate
POSTED BY MICHAEL INNES
11/09/2009
It's not about the number of troops
POSTED BY GRETCHEN PETERS
11/09/2009
An articulate plan for security
POSTED BY ASMA NEMATI
11/09/2009
Time for the heavy lifting
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
11/09/2009
The forgotten front
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
11/06/2009
Will the U.N.’s withdrawal cancel out the U.S.’s civilian surge?
POSTED BY BRIAN KATULIS
11/05/2009
You can get there from here
POSTED BY AUSTIN LONG
11/04/2009
FATA 101: When the shooting stops
POSTED BY MARK SCHNEIDER
11/04/2009
Grading the AfPak experts
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
11/03/2009
Inside the Beltway, outside the box
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
11/03/2009
Abdullah Abdullah
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
11/02/2009
The president has been elected
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
11/02/2009
The most dysfunctional relationship in the world
POSTED BY AHSAN BUTT
11/02/2009
OCTOBER 2009
Clinton to be on Jim Lehrer's NewsHour tonight!
POSTED BY P.J. AROON
10/30/2009
Cleaning the U.S.’s house
POSTED BY JOANNA NATHAN
10/30/2009
Pakistan drone war takes a toll on militants -- and civilians
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
10/29/2009
Birds of a feather: flocking together or flying apart?
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
10/28/2009
The U.S. is losing Afghanistan on two fronts
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
10/26/2009
High Cost, Low Odds (from THE NATION)
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
10/23/2009
Word on the Afghan street
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
10/22/2009
Pakistan: The human cost
POSTED BY ANNA HUSARSKA
10/21/2009
New U.N. report: Opium's not just an Afghan problem
POSTED BY GRETCHEN PETERS
10/21/2009
The rule of law prevails
POSTED BY J ALEXANDER THIER
10/20/2009
Four things to remember during the Waziristan war
POSTED BY AHSAN BUTT
10/19/2009
Crunching the numbers on Karzai's fraud
POSTED BY J ALEXANDER THIER
10/19/2009
The front
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
10/19/2009
Mosquitoes biting dogs
POSTED BY ASIF AKHTAR
10/16/2009
Pakistan under siege
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
10/16/2009
Three reasons Democrats should support more troops in Afghanistan
POSTED BY BRIAN GLYN WILLIAMS
10/16/2009
Rumors of a runoff
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
10/16/2009
From COIN to chaos
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
10/15/2009
Don't put all the security eggs in the al Qaeda basket
POSTED BY CAROLINE WADHAMS
10/15/2009
Does Obama watch "Frontline?"
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
10/15/2009
All al Qaedas are not created equal
POSTED BY BRIAN FISHMAN
10/14/2009
Sound and fury, signifying nothing
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
10/13/2009
Is bigger always better?
POSTED BY JOANNA NATHAN
10/13/2009
What a CT mission in Afghanistan would actually look like
POSTED BY AUSTIN LONG
10/13/2009
The sound of silence
POSTED BY MICHAEL INNES
10/12/2009
Don't give up on the Afghans
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
10/12/2009
Deciphering the attack on Pakistan’s Army headquarters
POSTED BY HASSAN ABBAS
10/11/2009
Long past due
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
10/11/2009
Afghanistan's other election
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
10/09/2009
U.S.-Pakistan goals coming into alignment
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
10/08/2009
The Eight Years’ War
POSTED BY J ALEXANDER THIER
10/07/2009
Afghanistan and Pakistan at the SFRC
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
10/07/2009
Another Afghan counterfactual
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
10/07/2009
Talibanistan: The Talibs at home
POSTED BY NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE
10/06/2009
Putting the 'I' in aid
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
10/05/2009
Ground truths
POSTED BY MICHAEL INNES
10/02/2009
Pakistan's army heads into the belly of the beast
POSTED BY ARIF RAFIQ
10/01/2009
The Waziristan wild card
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
10/01/2009
Two arguments for what to do in Afghanistan
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
10/01/2009
SEPTEMBER 2009
Combating corruption in Afghanistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
09/30/2009
Homecoming: al Qaeda recruits a growing number of Americans
POSTED BY PAUL CRUICKSHANK
09/30/2009
Gorbachev was right
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
09/29/2009
An Afghan perspective on detentions
POSTED BY ERICA GASTON
09/29/2009
Protecting Pakistan’s population by de-politicizing the police
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
09/29/2009
Ink spots
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
09/28/2009
The wrong question
POSTED BY CAROLINE WADHAMS
09/28/2009
David Brooks on Afghanistan: Caveat Lector!
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
09/25/2009
The Afghan war comes home
POSTED BY PAUL CRUICKSHANK
09/25/2009
Legitimacy and the Afghan Army
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
09/24/2009
Thinking about Afghanistan
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
09/24/2009
Key information missing in McChrystal’s recipe to reform detentions
POSTED BY SAHR MUHAMMEDALLY
09/22/2009
A "debate" on Afghanistan?
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
09/22/2009
Obama’s AfPak metrics miss the mark on Pakistan
POSTED BY HASSAN ABBAS
09/21/2009
Hidden justice: do Obama’s detention reforms in Afghanistan go far enough?
POSTED BY SAHR MUHAMMEDALLY
09/18/2009
Brother to brother
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
09/17/2009
3B or not 3B
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
09/17/2009
Afghanistan vs. Iraq media coverage, the redux
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
09/17/2009
Top GOP senators underwhelmed by Obama's AfPak metrics
POSTED BY JOSH ROGIN
09/16/2009
Bribing Afghans is a bad idea
POSTED BY JOANNA NATHAN
09/16/2009
What the White House’s AfPak metrics list doesn’t say
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
09/16/2009
The Obama administration's draft metrics on "evaluating progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan"
POSTED BY JOSH ROGIN
09/16/2009
The debate on Afghanistan
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
09/16/2009
Inside the terror plot that 'rivaled 9/11'
POSTED BY PAUL CRUICKSHANK
09/14/2009
Withdrawal without winning?
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
09/14/2009
President Obama, don’t listen to the public on Afghanistan
POSTED BY SYLVANA Q. SINHA
09/14/2009
Where's bin Laden?
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
09/11/2009
Does airpower help or hurt al Qaeda?
POSTED BY DAUD KHATTAK
09/11/2009
Helmand: bombs, drugs, and the Taliban
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
09/09/2009
Pakistan's tribal police: underpaid and undervalued
POSTED BY KHALID KHAN
09/09/2009
The imperfect election was the easy part ...
POSTED BY BRIAN KATULIS
09/08/2009
5 reasons to celebrate the results of the Afghan election...
POSTED BY DAVID ROTHKOPF
09/08/2009
Counting the ballots
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
09/08/2009
Off target in Kunduz
POSTED BY ERICA GASTON
09/08/2009
South to Kandahar
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
09/08/2009
How much is enough?
POSTED BY AUSTIN LONG
09/08/2009
Daily brief: suicide bomber attacks NATO air base in Kabul
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
09/08/2009
The Afghan phoenix
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
09/04/2009
Why John Nagl isn't being realistic about Afghanistan
POSTED BY MICHAEL COHEN
09/03/2009
Election lessons
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
09/03/2009
[[Article deleted]]
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
09/03/2009
Bad journalism has big consequences
POSTED BY AHSAN BUTT
09/02/2009
From COIN to containment
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
09/01/2009
Afghanistan needs more Afghan troops
POSTED BY JOHN NAGL
09/01/2009
AUGUST 2009
Keeping up with the Indians
POSTED BY PAUL STANILAND
08/31/2009
"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy"
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
08/31/2009
Predator vs. Max Weber in South Asia
POSTED BY AUSTIN LONG
08/31/2009
Afghanistan: vetting the embeds
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
08/31/2009
The U.S.'s strongman policy in Afghanistan
POSTED BY JOANNA NATHAN
08/28/2009
The women's vote
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
08/28/2009
The succession question
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
08/27/2009
Cleaning off my desk
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
08/27/2009
Eyewitness account: car bombing in Kandahar
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
08/26/2009
Working on a dream
POSTED BY SAMEER LALWANI
08/25/2009
Why can't the Afghans fight their own war?
POSTED BY SHUJA NAWAZ
08/25/2009
Weekend at Baitullah’s
POSTED BY ARIF RAFIQ
08/24/2009
The new face of the TTP
POSTED BY DAUD KHATTAK
08/24/2009
How much are we expected to believe?
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
08/24/2009
Avoid the rush to judgment
POSTED BY BRIAN KATULIS
08/22/2009
Go tell the world about our fake election
POSTED BY ALEX STRICK VAN LINSCHOTEN
08/21/2009
A good national turnout: between 40 and 45 percent
POSTED BY ANDREW WILDER
08/21/2009
An election with many faces
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
08/21/2009
E-Day in Gardez
POSTED BY THOMAS RUTTIG
08/21/2009
What election were you watching?
POSTED BY ERICA GASTON
08/21/2009
Word on the street
POSTED BY NORINE MACDONALD
08/21/2009
Safe Haven (2): A response to Peter Bergen
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
08/20/2009
Live-blogging the Afghan election
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
08/20/2009
And the winner is...
POSTED BY SHUJA NAWAZ
08/19/2009
The perils of polling in Afghanistan
POSTED BY SAMEER LALWANI
08/19/2009
Risks of a run-off
POSTED BY NORINE MACDONALD
08/19/2009
A different take on the "safe haven" myth
POSTED BY PAUL CRUICKSHANK
08/19/2009
How Realistic is Walt’s Realism?
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
08/19/2009
Getting hotter in Afghanistan
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
08/19/2009
The "safe haven" myth
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
08/18/2009
Mr. Holbrooke, pick up the phone
POSTED BY AHSAN BUTT
08/18/2009
Stuck with Afghanistan?
POSTED BY MICHAEL COHEN
08/18/2009
Election security in Kunduz
POSTED BY GILLES DORRONSORO
08/18/2009
Kashmir in the AfPak equation
POSTED BY PAUL STANILAND
08/18/2009
The return of the kingmaker
POSTED BY BRIAN GLYN WILLIAMS
08/17/2009
Bird's eye view of the Afghan presidential debate
POSTED BY MARTINE VAN BIJLERT
08/17/2009
Arguing about Afghanistan
POSTED BY STEVE COLL
08/17/2009
Five things to watch around Afghan elections
POSTED BY BRIAN KATULIS
08/17/2009
After Baitullah
POSTED BY IMTIAZ GUL
08/17/2009
On the ground in Kandahar
POSTED BY ALEX STRICK VAN LINSCHOTEN
08/16/2009
Setting the context
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
08/15/2009
The Pakistani rumor mill
POSTED BY PARAG KHANNA
08/15/2009
The insider threat to Pakistan's nukes
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
08/15/2009
Paging Professor Gregory
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
08/15/2009
What the Senate report doesn't answer
POSTED BY GRETCHEN PETERS
08/14/2009
Misfire on attacks on Pakistani nukes!
POSTED BY SHUJA NAWAZ
08/14/2009
Abdullah Abdullah pulls out of Afghan presidential debate
POSTED BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL
08/14/2009
Parsing the Pakistan polling
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
08/14/2009
Obama's Pakistan problem
POSTED BY SAMEER LALWANI
08/13/2009
Pakistan's nukes are safe. Maybe.
POSTED BY VIPIN NARANG
08/13/2009
Iraq vs. Afghanistan: Which war gets more U.S. news coverage?
POSTED BY MICHAEL WILKERSON
08/13/2009
What defeat in Afghanistan looks like
POSTED BY BRIAN GLYN WILLIAMS
08/12/2009
Holbrooke on success: “We’ll know it when we see it”
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
08/12/2009
Holbrooke: victory in Afghanistan is like pornography
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
08/12/2009
U.S. official: We're not worried about assaults on Pakistani nukes
POSTED BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL
08/11/2009
Is Kandahar FUBAR? An AfPak Channel debate
POSTED BY KATHERINE TIEDEMANN
08/11/2009
Afghan drug lords: targeted until proven innocent
POSTED BY STEPHEN M. WALT
08/11/2009
Hardly winning
POSTED BY PETER BERGEN
08/11/2009
Are the Taliban winning?
POSTED BY MICHAEL F. SCHEUER
08/11/2009
Does Baitullah Mehsud's death really leave al Qaeda exposed?
POSTED BY NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE
08/10/2009
Pakistan and the Taliban: Leaders caught betwixt and between
POSTED BY SHUJA NAWAZ
08/10/2009
Low-hanging fruit
POSTED BY STEPHEN TANKEL
08/10/2009
U.S. drones finally targeted Baitullah Mehsud
POSTED BY BRIAN GLYN WILLIAMS
08/10/2009
What the TTP is made of
POSTED BY AUSTIN LONG
08/09/2009
How do we deal with Hamid Karzai?
POSTED BY CHRISTIAN BROSE
08/06/2009
