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Afghanistan

Big Dreams in an Impossible Job

James Astill

Can Ashraf Ghani save Afghanistan? The new President in conversation with James Astill

The Jihadi Chic

The videotape jihad has been replaced by the YouTube jihad, and the geography of revolution has shifted from Afghanistan to Syria

Bring back some imperialism please

Political Islam triumphs because freedom is an idea that no longer appeals to leaders of the so-called free world

How to Frame the Taliban

A veteran of many wars, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg found Afghan terrain tricky, the language unfamiliar and the recklessness scary. Yet, he kept returning to document it all

Will History Too Retreat?

Warning as American Troops Withdraw: Modernise Afghanistan at Your Own Peril

An Afghan Moment

A minor football victory over India for news tickers, a major cause of jubilation for Afghans

Afghanistan after 2014

Global pessimism is both unfounded and unhelpful

History is in the Telling

Dalrymple’s book is well researched, but that still doesn’t mean we take his account at face value

Prophets of Freedom

Stories of the extraordinary women of Afghanistan

The woman who the Taliban and the NATO fear

Meet Shukria Barakzai, a leading advocate of women’s rights in Afghanistan who wants to run for the country’s top office in 2014

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