When the IED got him in Afghanistan, he became an instant saint in Springfield. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Beyond the village, beyond the river and the streams, Laila saw foothills, bare and dusty brown, and, beyond those, as beyond everything else in Afghanistan, the snowcapped Hindu Kush. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

For all the problems in Afghanistan, this was still home. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He'd helped to broker the Paris Agreement on climate change, brought tens of thousands of troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan, and led the effort to effectively shut down Iran's nuclear program. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Since the Mujahideen takeover in April 1992, Afghanistan’s name had been changed to the Islamic State of Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She said that the Soviet Union was the best nation in the world, along with Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Not sure he wants to remember Afghanistan. Or arguing with my mom. Mom says, ‘It’s nobody’s fault, they “grew apart.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our watan is now known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, I had only seen the ocean at the cinema. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I haven't gotten them to do any tricks like the pigeon trainers in Afghanistan have done, but I'm working on it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Like pride in your people, your cus­toms, your language. Afghanistan is like a beautiful mansion lit­tered with garbage, and someone has to take out the garbage.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each side continually explores the limits of the other’s tolerance, as in flights of nuclear bombers over the Arctic wastes; the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars—a few entries from a long and dolorous list. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was twenty-six, and had moved back in with us while her husband was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“What brings them all back to Afghanistan, dear brother?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The next puzzle is how Auntie Seema can get me back to my mom in Afghanistan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had lost his mom in the war in Afghanistan, and he knew how empty the words I’m sorry could sound. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I pray that I have not put you in harm’s way and that Afghanistan has not been too unkind to you. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He surfed the Web, looking for articles on Afghanistan and the flood of refugees pouring across the border. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I saw sweetshops and carpet vendors, kabob stalls, kids with dirt- caked hands selling cigarettes, tiny restaurants—maps of Afghanistan painted on their windows—all interlaced with back­street aid agencies. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"He loved to be a journalist. He wanted to write the truth about what was happening in Afghanistan. A house of lies was no place to raise a child. That's what he said." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I met young activists from around the world that night—a girl who had started an all-female internet cafe in Afghanistan; a girl who had launched a major anti-bullying campaign in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And, under the bony glow of a half­moon, I sensed Afghanistan humming under my feet. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the story of what had happened to them in Afghanistan and the danger Habib had faced when he’d been pressured to join the Taliban. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

You offered tassali, condolences, for the death of a parent, congratulated the birth of children, and shook your head mournfully when the conversation turned to Afghanistan and the Roussis—which it inevitably did. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi knew her mind was wrapped up in the recent bombing of eastern Afghanistan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In those days there were only two topics of conversation: the Radio Mullah and the fighting just across the border in Afghanistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"My mom's always been really scared of it because she's always hearing about something bad happening here. She was afraid it would be too much like Afghanistan. I guess some stuff is hard to forget." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, owning anything American, especially if it wasn’t secondhand, was a sign of wealth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

While living in the United States, Zafoona had watched the news coming out of Afghanistan with growing concern. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Zafoona’s older brother also left Afghanistan for Germany later that year, along with his wife and children. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I was six years old when she told me just a little bit about leaving Afghanistan to come to the US. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“But why did we come back to Afghanistan, then?” asked Mariam, her sticky fingers drumming against the table, the honey tin forgotten. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

His father had paid human traffickers twenty thousand dollars, the family’s entire savings, to get them out of Afghanistan into neighboring Pakistan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Nowadays the Muslims who live in Iran and Afghanistan are the Shiites, and in Oklahoma, they call them the fundamentalists. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Afghanistan is home to the best horsemen—they can defy gravity on the back of a stallion. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In 2015, after American women soldiers stationed in Afghanistan complained that the army still did not provide boots in women’s sizes, the United States Congress suggested it might be time for a more up-to-date policy. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We’d heard stories of people throwing acid in the faces of girls in Afghanistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Since India and Afghanistan are next to each other, it was almost like they found long-lost friends in each other. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Kathy often worried about the National Guard and other soldiers returning to the United States after time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Since I was little, my mother has tested me with riddles she learned as a child in Afghanistan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“But let’s suppose that somehow Afghanistan gets its act together,” Omar said, crossing his arms on his protruding belly. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And if Governor Blanco was right, that these were vets coming straight from Afghanistan and Iraq, it could not bode well for her husband. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“That day in Jalalabad...the day we left Afghanistan...” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Afghanistan was landlocked, with the nearest coast lying along the Arabian Sea three hundred miles to the south. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Or do they have different characters in Afghanistan? Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Despite the school drawing from a state with roughly the population of Angola, Australia, or Afghanistan, Prince was the only black child. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The 82nd was preparing to depart for Afghanistan for a yearlong tour, and he told me he would love for me to join them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The week before, the scratchy voice of the assistant on the speakerphone had told them that she was still sending out inquiries, but the situation in Afghanistan was getting worse. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Muslim rulers took Alexander’s old lands in Afghanistan and then, from there, swept through to conquer northern India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“They have made Afghanistan the laughingstock of the world. Now they are working with Osama.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In the midst of it all, Afghanistan was forgot­ten. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He saw his mother the day she left for Afghanistan. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was a war going on in Afghanistan, a new color-coded threat advisory system being used in the United States, and Osama bin Laden was apparently hiding somewhere in a cave. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“My mom did. Grandmother thought that’s what got her killed in Afghanistan, in the war. Mom tried to help some of her buddies, and...I don’t know exactly what happened. There was a firebomb.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“My dad talks about the towers all the time—it’s why he joined the Marines. Why he went to Afghanistan.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Luma was right in front of them, but a woman soccer coach was a strange sight to young Africans, and to young Muslim boys from Afghanistan and Iraq. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I asked my father this, and he told me that life was even worse for women in Afghanistan, where a group called the Taliban had taken over the country. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His dream had always been to rebuild Afghanistan and bring peace to its people. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Walter Reed tended to be the second or third stop for injured service members who were evacuated out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Amir agha, Alas the Afghanistan of our youth is long dead. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I turned thirteen that summer of 1976, Afghanistan’s next to last summer of peace and anonymity. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know anything about them other than they’re from Afghanistan and that there’s a mother, father, and four kids.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There's the headline about Afghanistan just a couple of feet from me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don’t like it free money.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not good that outside elements, like al-Qaeda, are ruining Afghanistan.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, I saw what people do to the earth because everyone wants to say this is mine. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She says she wears the same clothes people in Afghanistan wear, but people always look shocked. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By the time the smoke cleared his rule extended deep into what is now Afghanistan; one source even asserts—dubiously—that his sway ran straight to the gates of India. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Babi said that there were tensions between their people—the Tajiks, who were a minority, and Tariq’s people, the Pashtuns, who were the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I want to be there when it happens, when Afghanistan is free, so the boys see it too. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

What I didn’t realize was that they weren’t only in Afghanistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Despite the best efforts of my chain of command to get me back to the Bronx from Afghanistan, I could not get there in time to say goodbye. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Another mile and they arrived at the outskirts of the sprawling city of Jalalabad, in the eastern province of Afghanistan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Or Afghanistan and what had happened to them there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The general believed that, sooner or later, Afghanistan would be freed, the monarchy restored, and his services would once again be called upon. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, yelda is the first night of the month of Jadi, the first night of winter, and the longest night of the year. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the stories my mom told me about pigeons in Afghanistan soaring miles through the sky but always returning home that pulled me to the roof of our building. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I stayed awake, hands crossed on my chest, staring into the starlit night through the broken window, and thinking that maybe what people said about Afghanistan was true. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was no South Korean version of the “9/11” effect that propelled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I thought of a line I’d read somewhere, or maybe I’d heard someone say it: There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We would have been stuck in Pakistan without the chance for asylum. We would be a family without a country. There was no way we could go back to Afghanistan.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And less than a year after that, he was deployed to Afghanistan. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Life in Afghanistan had become more and more dangerous for their family, especially since the Taliban’s most recent visit to their house. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“If it wasn’t for your stubborn insistence that we go back to Afghanistan five years ago, we wouldn’t be in this mess right now! ” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But if I've never been to Afghanistan, how can I be Afghan? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The young men and women who were heading to Iraq and Afghanistan to serve and fight weren’t just anonymous recruits but friends of mine, brothers and sisters in arms. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

That meant that if the authorities found her, they would send her back to Afghanistan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If my mother is being sent to Afghanistan, she'll be sent to Kabul. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The boys came from Liberia, Kosovo, Sudan, Somalia, Burundi, Bosnia, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan, and while most spoke some English, they had little in common. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“She...she was accidentally left behind in Afghanistan.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

By the end of 2011, the last American soldiers had left Iraq; a gradual drawdown of troops was under way in Afghanistan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I am a Pashtun, a member of a proud tribe of people spread across Afghanistan and Pakistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I asked my mother once if we would ever go to Afghanistan to visit her family there. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was a player on the Fugees who was not as good at soccer as his teammates—a tiny defender from Afghanistan named Zubaid. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But it’s true, Babi said, it’s a good time to be a woman in Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And I also know that when this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Although many women in Afghanistan traditionally chose to wear the burka, a head-to-toe covering—including his grandmother and his aunts—the Taliban now made it mandatory. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Micho stopped by and told us a story about a buddy of his who got shot in Afghanistan and survived. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“It was my honor to rid Afghanistan of opium, brother,” responded Habib. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I realized something: I would not leave Afghanistan without finding Sohrab. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think the only thing he loved as much as his late wife was Afghanistan, his late country. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that somewhere between the time we had left Peshawar for Afghanistan and now, we had become friends. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rahim Khan had warned me not to expect a warm welcome in Afghanistan from those who had stayed behind and fought the wars. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There will be trouble in Afghanistan,” prophesied the old woman. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I can't imagine that there are many oyster shells in Afghanistan either, since the country doesn't touch the ocean. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Taliban had risen from eastern Afghanistan and had marched through the country, slowly gaining control. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My dad got blown up in Afghanistan, and Ma and everybody we knew and plenty of people we didn’t know but knew his name, all reminded me—he sacrificed for all of us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“This is going to spell disaster for Afghanistan,” said a third man. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“God help us all if Afghanistan ever falls into their hands.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But the fact is, take current immigration laws, adoption agency policies, and the political situation in Afghanistan, and the deck is stacked against you.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had gone into Afghanistan to bring back my half brother’s son. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His father had wanted to go back to Afghanistan to help, but it just hadn’t turned out that way. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, the ending was all that mattered. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as my mother's feet hit Afghanistan, she'll find a way for us to be together again. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His big brother Matt had died in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan the year before. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Soon after the attacks, America bombed Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance moved in, and the Taliban scurried like rats into the caves. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If I asked them to send me to Afghanistan, would they? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Who could she ask without risking being sent back to Afghanistan? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Over the preceding weeks he’d sat, tucked away, next to the couch in the living room, listening while Habib and Uncle Amin called their relatives and friends in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A remarkable bit of research was done with veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It takes almost a day of flying to go from New York to Afghanistan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I became a member of the 82nd Airborne and headed to Afghanistan. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The general had finally been summoned to Afghanistan the month before for a ministry position, and had flown there two weeks earlier—he had left behind his gray suit and pocket watch. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I hope your suffering comes to an end with this journey to Afghanistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi had heard this all before, how Afghanistan had become the world’s largest producer of opium and how the heroin derived from the poppies was ruining the country. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Habib still clung to the back railing, watching Afghanistan disappear behind them. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Father and Mother wanted to help the people in Afghanistan,” said Fadi, trying to shut her up. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

We never should have gone back to Afghanistan in the first place when things were so bad. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He could speak at length about the struggle between Britain and czarist Russia over Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

That was the year that the Shorawi completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"There's a lot of war in Afghanistan too." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I think of all the good things my mother told me about Afghanistan, and I think I see a little bit of that in me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking about my mom, wondering where she is and how soon they'll send her back to Afghanistan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Afghanistan has been invaded so many times. By the Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, British, and then the Soviets...” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1988, about six months before the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, I finished my first novel, a father-son story set in Kabul, written mostly with the typewriter the general had given me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I am not offended. I should have explained to him my business here in Afghanistan. I am not here to sell property. I’m going to Kabul to find a boy.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Five years ago we were on our way back to Afghanistan from the United States. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

"My father worked with American soldiers in Afghanistan. He was a translator." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her father had died in Afghanistan when she was still a baby. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And everyone in Afghanistan would be happy too, she said, once the antiprogressives, the backward bandits, were defeated. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

While the rate declined in the 1990s as the shadows cast by the Vietnam War began to recede, it has picked up again as a result of the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Death certificates? This is Afghanistan we’re talking about. Most people there don’t have birth certificates.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As for Soraya, telling her I was going back to Afghanistan wasn’t an option. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Finally, adoption agencies routinely send staff members to evaluate the child’s milieu, and no reasonable agency is going to send an agent to Afghanistan.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

God help us all if Afghanistan ever falls into their hands. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And some­thing else, something I hadn’t noticed right away: Hardly any of them sat with an adult male—the wars had made fathers a rare commodity in Afghanistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I've asked my mom a million times to tell me stories about Afghanistan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“When we returned to Afghanistan, the Taliban asked me to help get rid of the country’s vast poppy fields that were used to make drugs.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The British Museum has assisted in the return of 843 artefacts to Afghanistan, almost 20 years after they were stolen or smuggled abroad. Looted art back in Afghan museum 2012-07-19T12:10:56Z

Flash-forward to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and another uptick in extreme horror films, led by two franchises, “Saw” and “Hostel,” that reflected a darkening mood. When bloody horror movies are actually about . . . politics 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

His pregnant sister is worried about her husband, Brad, who is a Marine in Afghanistan. KidsPost Summer Book Club: Ungifted 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

“We had decided that we wanted to tell the last story in Afghanistan, and we already knew two big things,” Gansa said. ‘Homeland’ Showrunner Declassifies the Series Finale 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

Turner plays Molly Dawes, who serves in Afghanistan as part of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Abbott to star in retirement comedy 2013-12-02T13:22:49Z

So the sense of going somewhere you’ve never been is palpable from almost the very beginning of “Jirga,” a fictional film shot almost entirely in and around these cities in Afghanistan. ‘Jirga’ Review: A Soldier Returns to the Scene of His War Crime 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

"Perhaps the war will be finished for many U.S. troops," he writes, "but the fight is far from settled. Afghanistan was an unsuccessful laboratory for ideas about how to fix a ruined country." 'The Dogs Are Eating Them Now' an unflinching account of Afghanistan 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

An administration review of the Afghanistan war is scheduled for this December. Books of The Times: Afghanistan as Obama and Others Game It 2010-09-22T22:53:00Z

When U.S. troops were being killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, it was a national crisis—and a sign it was time to bring them home. Photoshopping bruises onto Kim Kardashian’s face isn’t going to stop domestic violence 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The number of civilian fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan remains uncertain but a Brown University study last year reported at least 132,000. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

“There isn’t a single woman in Afghanistan who hasn’t been violated on some level in her lifetime,” Ms. Khademi said. In Afghanistan, Being an Artist Is a Dangerous Job 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

An excerpt from Afghanistan in the UK, a VBS.TV documentary on an 'Afghan village' built in the East Anglia countryside to help British troops train for war. Sloths, sharks and spoofs sate appetite for online DIY films 2010-08-17T22:11:00Z

It's naive, crude – setting the war in Afghanistan against multicultural London, a racist dad against a Muslim boyfriend. Foyle's War; Our Girl – TV review 2013-03-25T07:00:00Z

"It's just a pity I didn't get to Afghanistan," William said last year. Prince William: Britain's Sea King of the skies 2011-04-14T13:17:15Z

My National Guard unit was selected for a 2012 deployment to Afghanistan. Modern Love: A Soldier Leaves a Girl Behind - Modern Love 2012-10-19T19:50:41Z

But Sopko spends time on the ground in Afghanistan sniffing for malfeasance: The airplane investigation began last year when he noticed the G222s rusting on the runway in Kabul. ‘It’s John against the world right now’

The Kite Runner, which was nominated for original score in 2007, was set in Afghanistan but not filmed there. Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet 2013-02-07T17:30:11Z

From where Stone sits, World War II begot the cold war, which landed us in Vietnam, a manifestation of American imperialism, which led inexorably to our current battle in Afghanistan. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z

“Despite the 40 years of war in Afghanistan she was always hopeful of the future and hopeful for the future of the new generation in Afghanistan.” Nancy Hatch Dupree 'Grandmother of Afghanistan' dies in Kabul 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

‘Kim did … something’ Meanwhile, Harrison had not given up her hunt for Bergdahl and was scheming on how to go to Pakistan or Afghanistan to find him. Serial recap – season two, episode five: Meanwhile, in Tampa 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The unfortunate reality is that this is a failure of the allied strategy in Afghanistan. Taliban "poised to retake Afghanistan" after NATO pullout 2012-02-01T13:22:02Z

He called off the burning, but his discussions triggered unrest in Afghanistan. General asks preacher not to back anti-Muslim film 2012-09-12T20:19:11Z

The difference: The war in Afghanistan is being fought by an all-volunteer army, which muffles political discussion and engagement. Karl Marlantes' Vietnam War novel 'Matterhorn' may not have peaked yet 2011-03-05T00:43:53Z

Questions of national unity are poignant in Afghanistan, where Taliban insurgents are flexing their muscles with near-daily attacks. Afghanistan's Bruce Lee 'reincarnation' becomes Web hit 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

After deployments including Iraq and Afghanistan, he suffered night terrors and insomnia, he said. Can Programs That Help the Military Save the Federal Arts Agencies? 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

The Taliban said the main targets were the German and British embassies and the headquarters of Afghanistan's -led force. Multiple attacks on Kabul, Taliban claims "spring offensive" 2012-04-15T14:26:03Z

"We certainly hope that it doesn't mean that donors are turning their backs on Afghanistan," Moylan said. U.N. agency to cut food rations for 1 million Afghans over funding 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Players from Syria, Afghanistan and African countries including Ivory Coast, Congo and Nigeria took part in a series of matches in a FIFA-designated Football Park by the Kremlin walls. Asian, African migrants living in Russia play soccer on Red Square 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

“Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World” at the British Museum until July 17, before moving on to New York, is one of those, judging from the pedestrian didactic display. Art Review: Murky Exploration of an Iranian Past 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z

“We were in almost daily contact about the changing situation in Afghanistan,” the director, Tyne Rafaeli, said, “and starting to understand and analyze how that changing situation was going to affect our play.” ‘Selling Kabul’ Holds Up a New Mirror After the Taliban Takeover 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

That authority is "not limited to the battlefields in Afghanistan," Holder said, adding that "We are at war with a stateless enemy, prone to shifting operations from country to country." Holder defends killing of U.S.-born cleric 2012-03-05T22:00:00Z

Looking out at the Tagus River from her room, she said the people of Afghanistan needed music, just like residents of other countries. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

"But when you look back at the script you realise it is equally about Afghanistan, about every war." Black Watch director had feared the play would be a 'turkey' 2010-08-18T16:00:00Z

Their recovery, however, speaks of another, longer mystery, less elusive in the way it has unravelled: precisely what these objects have to say about Afghanistan's culture 1,900 years ago. The Begram ivories: Rescuing Afghanistan's lost history 2011-02-27T00:05:25Z

This concept of doing messaging through drama serials as opposed to a billboard was a very new idea in Afghanistan, where 86 percent of the country is illiterate. Book Talk: Making Soapies in Kabul 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

As Afghans, we are in contact with people in Afghanistan, and they do not want this war. First big NATO summit protest today 2012-05-18T11:18:00Z

In a program note Ms. Clements writes about how her boyfriend was deployed to Afghanistan. Dance Review: Expressing the Pain of Being Left Behind 2011-02-06T22:28:14Z

The irony was we originally prepped it before the U.S. withdrawal of Afghanistan. "We leave these places in ruins": How the white lens on "Kandahar" reflects the human cost 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z

The virus is now only endemic to three countries in the world – Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan – and cases of polio number in the dozens. The man in the iron lung 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

When the studio cooled on the project, Ms. Bigelow and Mr. Boal started working on a movie about the unsuccessful hunt for Bin Laden in the mountains of Afghanistan. The Carpetbagger: The Laser-Focused Director 2013-01-03T15:00:54Z

Air Force personnel stationed at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, including the “Reapers,” who are tasked with capturing or killing Taliban targets. TV highlights: The ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 4 finale

The landscape is an exquisitely variegated green, and the blue of Catherine’s robe owes its brilliance to an expensive pigment imported from Afghanistan. Close Reading: The Belles Heures on Display at the Met 2010-03-31T23:05:00Z

Afghanistan in the late 70s was far from the ideal place and time for a vast hoard of gold of this kind to emerge. The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z

It is about a group of American soldiers stationed at an outpost in Afghanistan that is indefensible — as is the logic that put them there. 25 best books of 2012 2012-12-13T00:31:12Z

In the e-mail, Mortenson says he recently returned from Afghanistan, where his organization plans to establish and built more than 60 new schools this year. 'Three Cups of Tea' author defends book 2011-04-18T13:12:00Z

Sixty per cent of veterans from the most recent wars now suffer a mental-health issue related to their military service, according to a survey, in May, by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

The base is home to the 2nd Infantry Division's 3rd Stryker Brigade, whose other members remain in Afghanistan. Family of suspect in Afghan killings 'shocked' 2012-03-16T05:39:00Z

Axworthy's suggestion that Saudi Arabia has backed insurgents in Afghanistan more recently is also controversial. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-25T10:00:01Z

Dan Weekend, a gathering of military personnel and vets who were severely wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq. Sinise honors wounded vets at SC's Lt. Dan Weekend 2011-09-16T18:13:08Z

Those he does set tend to be around policy disputes over North Korea, Afghanistan, tax reform, trade and tariffs, and the Paris climate agreement, among other issues. In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump’s ‘Crazytown’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Lindsay Lohan's investigation into Indian child-trafficking and Ross Kemp's self-aggrandising reports from the war in Afghanistan being two of the most baffling examples. Celebrity experts: time for a rain check 2011-04-08T11:49:31Z

Whether you’re flying to southwest Afghanistan, southwest Syria or southwest Missouri, these landings are completely 100 percent planned. Humor: Landed at the Wrong Airport? Imagining a P.R. Response 2014-01-30T15:59:31Z

These were the days after Sept. 11, during the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Aggro-Texting From the Syrian Jihad 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

We became a long-distance couple shortly after we met, when my partner was deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq for eight months. I live in Tokyo. He lives in D.C. Omicron forced us to marry if we ever wanted to see each other. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

They almost made us forget there was a time when we could launch disastrous invasions of Afghanistan without their help. David Mitchell on Brits as Hollywood superheroes 2011-02-06T00:05:59Z

He then goes to visit our brave troops in Afghanistan while I have a nice girls' night in with Elisabeth Murdoch and Rebekah Wade. Digested read: Behind the Black Door by Sarah Brown 2011-03-14T21:00:01Z

“The bottom line: Ninety percent of Americans in Afghanistan who wanted to leave were able to leave,” Biden said. Biden defends departure from ‘forever war’ in Afghanistan 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

In February he completed an 18-month training course in Britain and the United States to become an Apache attack helicopter pilot, and on Friday he arrived in Afghanistan for a four-month combat tour. Combat is tradition for UK royal 'spare heir' 2012-09-07T12:43:12Z

An enlarged, framed version of Shamim’s passport photograph from the day she left Afghanistan hangs in the restaurant’s main dining room, among many others photos that evoke happier times in Kabul, before the Soviets invaded. They Fled Afghanistan for America. Now They Feed the Newest Arrivals. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

How a pair of ageing he-men who effectively retired 16 years ago ended up back in cold war costume is a story that begins with Iraq and Afghanistan. Rambo and the Terminator: the cold war warriors are back 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

According to Koenig, the reason the Pakistan’s tolerate the Haqqanis is because “they are useful to them” as a proxy for fighting Pakistani Taliban, as well as in both Afghanistan and India, Pakistan’s longtime rival. Serial recap – season two, episode four: The Captors 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

I once knew a reporter who’d filed from Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq and Beirut. My cancer recovery was relatively smooth. Why do I feel in limbo? | Leading questions 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Wh en I used to visit troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, I liked to ask an unexpected question: “What are you reading?” Review | A former congressman asked his old colleagues for book suggestions. Here’s their list. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

“Empress” explains how Nur Jahan came to amass power and influence in a patriarchal dynasty that ruled much of what is now India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

The belief that Pakistan supports the insurgents is widely held in Afghanistan. Taliban "poised to retake Afghanistan" after NATO pullout 2012-02-01T13:22:02Z

A New York Times story compared them to the Sopranos of the Afghanistan war.” Serial recap – season two, episode four: The Captors 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

I was speaking to an Afghan woman - it is in the book - who worked for the U.N. in Afghanistan. Book Talk: Women in Afghanistan, through a looking glass 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

When my series of shots from Afghanistan were published in News Week two years ago, it was a one-off thing. What is life like for emerging student photographers? 2012-11-12T16:20:43Z

Cooper and Phillips, partners under the production company Joint Effort, will release their company’s first movie, War Dogs, which centers on two men who arm U.S. allies in Afghanistan, on Aug. 19. Bradley Cooper Is Developing an HBO Miniseries About the Rise of ISIS 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Mitt Romney, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, used to criticize Obama for rushing toward the exits in Afghanistan but more recently has muted that line of attack. Poll: Global policy a hit at home 2012-05-18T06:05:00Z

The best-selling memoirs recount how Mortenson started building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 'Three Cups' readers take case to appeals court 2012-05-17T18:11:07Z

The lesson is that every army that has tried to invade Afghanistan has inevitably been forced to leave with its tail between its legs. TV review: MotherTruckers; Bullets, Boots and Bandages; Inside Men 2012-02-09T23:10:01Z

With our troops home from Iraq and soon to leave Afghanistan, the “war on terror” is long over. Who’s most susceptible to PTSD? 2012-12-10T17:31:00Z

Our leverage, for instance, with the client regimes that we are supporting is very limited — take Afghanistan, for example. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z

Another leader of an organization that does cultural work in Afghanistan said that even as the West mourns all that has been lost, two decades of investment in Afghan culture give some measure for hope. Perspective | Artists and cultural workers face life under Taliban 2.0 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

Because of his close encounter with Lariam, he provides sobering insights into the controversial use of the drug by hospitals and the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. David Stuart MacLean’s terrifying memoir of amnesia 2014-02-20T20:03:28Z

The complaint asks the judge to place the money into a trust administered by a court-appointed charity that would direct it to schoolchildren in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Montana residents sue 'Three Cups' author 2011-05-06T20:14:31Z

“The subjects in the film talk about it. Afghanistan is being defined by an outside media, and that media is leaving. What’s going to happen?” AFI Docs trains its lens on Afghanistan as festival kicks off 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Barker, a reporter for ProPublica formerly with The Seattle Times and Chicago Tribune, discusses her war journalism memoir, "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan." Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-20T22:18:11Z

“Taliban bans sanitory napkins in Afghanistan, says it’s not a Sharia complaint practice,” says the falsified post, which has multiple spelling errors. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Then he got to Afghanistan and was directed to Afghan histories of the conflict. William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z

Arnold traveled on assignment to China, Russia, South Africa and Afghanistan, photographing weddings, hospitals, picnics, schools and street scenes. Who was Eve Arnold? The woman behind some iconic photographs 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Wright's acclaimed book contains by far the most rounded biographical portrait of the central figures of al-Qaida, and how they took root in Afghanistan. William Dalrymple's top 10 books on Afghanistan 2013-03-27T11:27:32Z

“That’s the toughest part: changing the narrative about Afghanistan,” he says. What does Afghanistan need? Some major rebranding, says its 32-year-old ambassador. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

“Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan,” an epic 11-month show that opened this month at the Smithsonian Institution, aims to do that literally. An Afghan Bazaar Parachutes Into Washington 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

“Before the Taliban took rule in Afghanistan, women had the freedom to express themselves through clothing, and it’s sad to see the freedom be taken away from them.” #DoNotTouchMyClothes: Afghan Women Protest Taliban Restrictions on Rights 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

It recognizes the role that U.S. foreign policy has played in the militarization of various groups in Afghanistan. A Chameleon Flies From ‘The Blacklist’ to ‘The Kite Runner’ 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

So we went back to Afghanistan, where we would have license to tell a more explosive story, for lack of a better word. ‘Homeland’ Showrunner Declassifies the Series Finale 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mattis will write about conflicts from Afghanistan to Iraq and use those experiences for lessons on war and peace. Ex-defense secretary Jim Mattis has book coming this summer 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Bluestone 42 - the critically-acclaimed series following a bomb disposal unit in Afghanistan - has been commissioned for a further six 30-minute episodes. New comedy announced for BBC Three 2014-03-20T12:38:30Z

The two had co-directed the documentary “Restrepo” about a group of U.S. soldiers manning a remote and dangerous outpost in Afghanistan. How to stop the bleeding 2012-05-30T00:00:00Z

Armed with pads, pencils and cameras, they had two hours to carry out their mission: making drawings of service members wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Joe Bonham Project Illustrates the Wounds of War 2012-05-25T13:36:39Z

Violence against women is still common in Afghanistan, especially in remote areas. First female rapper debuts in Afghanistan 2012-10-09T12:17:09Z

Like the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russia found that using private military contractors — that is, mercenaries — in Ukraine was helpful in reducing the political impact of casualties. Russia, Ukraine and ‘Hybrid Conflicts’ 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

Three months later, with David in Afghanistan, the two rebooted their book club, reading “The Meaning of Marriage” by Timothy Keller in preparation for their more formal ceremony when David was back on American soil. On Love: Mary Carter Jacocks and David Junta 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

That was hardly surprising after nearly a decade of Americans’ fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the many movies those wars have inspired. Fashion?s Military Invasion Rolls On 2010-02-20T05:10:00Z

She talks about Guantánamo, Afghanistan, the exploitation of child workers and, more than anything, the environment. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z

But I don’t think it’s anything compared to what a correspondent in Afghanistan is going through. Jim DeRogatis has been covering R. Kelly’s alleged abuse for nearly two decades. He’s not done yet. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

The president said that the goal is to destroy al-Qaida not nation build in Afghanistan. Barack Obama: Afghanistan war is on track 2010-12-16T21:31:39Z

Pictured: A Taliban Red Unit, photographed at the Kabul airport after the departure of the last U.S. plane from Afghanistan on Aug. 31, 2021. What to watch on Tuesday: ‘Frontline: Taliban Takeover’ on PBS 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

And though its past wars with India seem to consume Pakistan’s almighty army leaders, for the past two decades it’s largely been America’s war in neighboring Afghanistan that’s demanded their attention. He Reported on Pakistan’s Volatile Politics. Then He Became a Story Himself. 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

We see a terrorist leader in a mud house in Afghanistan, unnamed but suggesting Osama bin Laden, approve the $100 million payment. Jack Reacher: Lee Child’s giant hero battles to save America in ‘Night School’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

After serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, David Crowley began work on a spectacularly ambitious feature film called “Gray State.” Review: ‘A Gray State,’ Behind a Filmmaker’s Madness 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Hosseini said he remained optimistic about the future of Afghanistan despite the increased physical danger in some areas of the country. Afghans don't see Nato mission as an occupation, says Kite Runner author 2012-11-17T15:53:05Z

"The Tillman Story" -- Amir Bar-Lev's fascinating documentary about Army Ranger Pat Tillman, the former football star killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan -- an idiosyncratic individual from an amazing American family -- seemed like an obvious contender. Winners and losers of today's Oscar noms 2011-01-25T17:20:00Z

Menon cautioned that if the Pakistani establishment felt U.S. commitment was flagging in Afghanistan it would not do what was needed in the West. US embassy cables: Indian concern over security in Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:34Z

Highlights include the Afghanistan war documentary “Restrepo” and “The Cases of Dr. Touret,” a dance interpretation of a book by Oliver Sacks. First Features and Student Fare at Prague Film Festival 2010-08-16T10:00:00Z

The area, which encompassed what is now northwestern Pakistan and a sliver of Afghanistan, was a crossroads for international traffic. Art Review: When East Met West Under the Buddha?s Gaze 2011-08-10T23:20:02Z

Aaron Smith, a decorated 25-year-old veteran of the war in Afghanistan, said he was pulled over at the community center founded by his grandmother. The ugliness I learned about Chicago police while reporting on gun violence 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

The destruction of the statues, which had stood for 1,500 years, remains one of the most tragic attacks on Afghanistan’s cultural heritage. Treasures of Afghan History, Art and Culture 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

But the Journal quoted Karzai on Thursday as saying the Taliban were "definitively" interested in a peace settlement to end the 10-year war in Afghanistan, and that all three sides were now involved in discussions. Karzai:Afghanistan joins Taliban peace talks 2012-02-16T12:12:00Z

Certainly nobody's in high spirits when we rejoin press and politicians for this second series, which kicks off in Afghanistan. 2013 TV preview: Borgen's back and Game of Thrones – but beware the graphic novel in new thriller Utopia 2012-12-30T19:50:01Z

The author has clearly mastered a great deal of learning about Islam and warfare and the nature of life in Afghanistan, and he carefully husbands these resources. In ‘Godsend,’ an Idealistic Young Woman Gets Tangled Up in Trouble in Afghanistan 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

Anderson himself survived his tour of duty in Afghanistan, though I’ve no idea where he is today.  Worth dying for? 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Just last week, two photojournalists were killed covering the rebellion in Libya, and last October Silva sustained a devastating injury while taking pictures on patrol with American soldiers in Afghanistan. 'The Bang Bang Club': Film shot with focus on guts and glory of combat photography 2011-04-28T20:07:17Z

This restrained coverage is far different from that of The New York Times or any other media outlet during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. How Vietnam dramatically changed our views on honor and war 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

We in the West have a long history in Afghanistan well before Osama bin Laden created bases there. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z

Bergdahl was captured in Afghanistan in 2009 and released last year in a prisoner swap after the White House traded him for five Guantánamo Bay prisoners. Serial recap – season two episode one: DUSTWUN 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

But if, as Wolf suggested, the army believed that Bergdahl was being held in Pakistan, why were they still doing searches in Afghanistan? Serial recap – season two, episode 11: Present for Duty 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

His dad’s a rock star, his mom was a fashion model who died in mysterious circumstances and he’s a war hero who lost his left foot in Afghanistan. Review: ‘C.B. Strike’ Brings J.K. Rowling’s Detective Novels to TV 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

And especially now, after a war in Afghanistan, the ways we remember move beyond commemoration. 7 Events in New York Honoring 9/11 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Talash, 56, said he hopes the "Buzkashi Boys" will show the world the rich culture of Afghanistan, which too few in the world know beyond reports of roadside bombs and suicide attacks. Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet 2013-02-07T17:30:11Z

In the minds of many outside the country, Afghanistan occupies a space somewhere between war and chaos. Lost and Found: Afghan Treasures Reunite at the British Museum 2011-03-27T06:35:00Z

Action turns to overkill when the squad journeys on foot from Pakistan to Afghanistan through mountains, a snowstorm and a desert, and Ms. Kruger’s noble suffering wears thin. Movie Review: ‘Special Forces,’ Directed by Stéphane Rybojad 2012-10-12T02:06:46Z

"It takes a lot of time and patience to form relationships that work in an insecure and constantly changing environment like Afghanistan," said producer Ariel Nasr. Buzkashi Boys shoots for Oscar with tale of Afghan child dreamers 2013-02-15T18:28:28Z

Then I was going to go back to Afghanistan and Iraq with Tony Sirico again just to walk around and say hello to guys — we don’t sing and dance. A Word With: James Gandolfini: Once Tough Guy, Now Nurturer 2010-10-26T21:33:00Z

He left his father in Afghanistan in 2001 several months before the September 11 attacks on the United States. 2010-01-21T00:03:00Z

As a result of 200 years of outside intervention, the people of Afghanistan now face an even darker prospect. In the line of fire: theatre and Afghanistan 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z

And despite his stoic manner, Mr. Twight was clearly emotional over the deaths of his former students in Afghanistan. Gym Jones Preaches the Cult of Physicality 2011-09-09T21:37:02Z

Number of improvised explosive devices, or IEDS, from Iraq and Afghanistan on display that the FBI investigated for clues to the bomb makers’ identities. Nissan rigged with explosives in Times Square now displayed at Newseum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Three marine captains, just back from Afghanistan, were in agreement: "It was irritating to see some empty seats during the morning – some Pentagon people could have used their time much better being here". How The Great Game emptied the Pentagon 2011-03-01T21:29:00Z

When Aikins, a Kabul-based journalist, set out with his translator on the perilous crossing between Afghanistan and Europe, he didn’t realize how it would change him. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

But the chaotic unfolding of events in Afghanistan yielded lessons for responding to the run-up of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ‘Year One: A Political Odyssey’ Review: Biden by the Numbers 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

The head of the Canadian land forces had said that the Army might need “a short operational break” lasting “at least one year” following its engagement in Afghanistan. In Praise of Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

In 2008, Harry became the first British royal to serve in a war zone in 25 years when he was deployed to southern Afghanistan for 10 weeks as an air controller. Combat is tradition for UK royal 'spare heir' 2012-09-07T12:43:12Z

Rock and roll will change the world, and we hope it will change Afghanistan too. Afghans rock at first music festival in three decades 2011-10-01T18:04:05Z

Ryan, a former marine who fought in Afghanistan, is a textbook sufferer of Dark Past Syndrome™. Jack Ryan: John Krasinski’s eyebrows out act John Krasinski 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

The rooms are smaller than in Afghanistan, but I like it. 'My worries are not over': diary of a 16-year-old Afghan refugee 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile in neighbouring Afghanistan, products of western culture can become matters of life and death. Mahan Esfahani: Why I'm proud to take part in the Proms 2012-07-20T14:06:00Z

In the September 11th Education Program, the timeline begins in December 1979 with Soviet forces invading Afghanistan. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z

Between Afghanistan deployments, Everman went to Iraq, and that, at times, was like a movie. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z

“The process of integration of our community is going very smoothly here,” Dr. Ahmad Sarmast, the founder and head of Afghanistan National Institute of Music, said. Yo-Yo Ma plays Mozart with Afghan refugees in Portugal 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Now Haqqani is off America’s kill list -- as long as he keeps his promise to not harbor terrorists in Afghanistan. 'Homeland' recap: Carrie's at a crossroads as Season 4 wraps 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Such as War Dogs, formerly titled Arms and the Dudes, about two real-life Miami stoners who made a fortune illegally exporting arms to Afghanistan with US approval – directed by the guy who made The Hangover. ‘Death to the infidels!’ Why it’s time to fix Hollywood’s problem with Muslims 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

She wrestles with the Veterans Affairs bureaucracy to get treatment for chronic pain from an injury she suffered in Afghanistan. War Is Hell? In New Military Dramas, It’s One-Dimensional 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Arriving 20 years after 9/11, as the United States has withdrawn its troops from Afghanistan, “Humane” encourages readers to ask central questions too often lost amid the chatter of the foreign policy establishment. The Dangers of Making War Less Dangerous 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

But it took two and a half years to raise the money and to turn the book, written in French, into a script in Dari, the Persian dialect spoken in Afghanistan. Golshifteh Farahani Continues to Rebel in ‘Patience Stone’ 2013-08-09T18:42:26Z

Perhaps reflecting our anxieties about the state of American medical care, these shows make a trip to the operating room look like a dicier prospect than a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Television Review: ‘Do No Harm’ on NBC, and ‘Monday Mornings’ on TNT 2013-01-30T22:51:11Z

The descriptions of this initial phase of the Afghanistan war are both amusing and hair-raising. Many masters, many lives 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

When he got back from Afghanistan, he says, the person apparently most affected by his injuries was his dad. Trigger happy: kids, guns and the American way 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

When the United States military dropped a giant bomb in Afghanistan in April, the show set the video to the tune of Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.” Watching ‘Fox & Friends,’ Trump Sees a Two-Way Mirror 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Instead, the perils of peacekeeping are the foremost concerns for a commander, Claus, and his troops, in a methodical movie that pivots from the backwaters of Afghanistan to a courtroom in Denmark. Review: ‘A War’ Tracks a Conflict from Battle Zone to Court 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

At the same time, there’s little expectation that the Taliban will permit anything like independent reporting from inside what the group now calls the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Journalists face danger on Kabul streets and a new question: How to cover Afghanistan now? 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

"One wonders whether or not internal political pressures in Afghanistan will constrain the options of Afghan negotiators on subjects ranging from U.S. basing rights to night raids," Exum said. Shooting raises questions about war's course 2012-03-11T22:17:00Z

Is Isherwood really saying that his appraisal of the play would be meaningfully different if they had uttered the word "Iraq" or "Afghanistan"? Really? Review: In ‘The Harvest,’ a Crisis of Feeling for Young Evangelicals 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

From 2013-15 she worked for Afghanistan’s permanent mission to the United Nations in New York, which included assisting negotiations on Security Council reform and small arms and light weapons agreements. Delaney Simon, Graeme Smith 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

She is a trustee of the British Forces Foundation and towards the end of last year travelled with the organisation to Afghanistan to entertain troops. Singer Jenkins to marry director 2014-04-20T13:19:45Z

He signed his filing on Tuesday while serving a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Vet suing over 'Hurt Locker' says film hurt him 2011-03-16T19:15:10Z

Elliot Ackerman is the author of several books, including “Red Dress in Black and White” and the forthcoming “The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan.” The Echoes and Echoes and Echoes of War 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

He also won a Pulitzer for the book “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.” Library of Congress National Book Festival: History Stage schedule 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, the war launched in retaliation for the 9/11 attacks is finally ending; America is not victorious and worse, other terrorists are attacking personnel on their way out. Nat Geo's "9/11: One Day in America" takes us inside the terror attacks with those who survived them 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

Afghanistan doesn’t appear much in video games, and, when it does, it’s usually as some sort of propaganda for the American military. Jamil Jan Kochai on the Intimate Alienation of Video Games 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

This first episode features explosive-sniffing spaniels that are being trained to search for IEDs in Afghanistan, as well as the horses being educated in the ceremonial duties of the Household Cavalry. TV highlights 04/06/2013 2013-06-04T06:00:08Z

The novel’s hero is Cormoran Strike, a struggling private investigator named who lost a leg in Afghanistan. The Name Game: J.K. Rowling and the Power of Brand 2013-07-16T09:45:18Z

For those of us with poor memories and worse geography, Tora Bora is the complex of caves in eastern Afghanistan where it was thought Bin Laden was hiding. Zero Dark Thirty: a bluffer's guide 2013-01-21T12:04:50Z

The reasons include crime, terrorism, civil unrest and armed conflict for Afghanistan and terrorism, civil unrest, health risks and armed conflict for Yemen. Perspective | Where in the world shouldn’t you go? 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

Gibney won the Oscar for best documentary in 2008 for "Taxi to the Dark Side," about U.S. detention of war prisoners from Iraq and Afghanistan. Film probes baseball scapegoat who keeps mystique 2011-04-26T20:16:38Z

“How is it that a mother in the United States feels more sadness and distress over a young girl dying at a concert in England than one burnt to death in Afghanistan?” Why is it so threatening to say Muslim lives matter? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

I felt," he later explained to the court, "that I had an obligation to assist what I perceived to be an Islamic liberation movement against the warlords who were occupying several provinces in northern Afghanistan. America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z

And similarly, these weeks later, it is the buildings, orchards and hills of Afghanistan that are being torn apart by bombs and fire-shells. The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam – extract 2013-01-26T10:00:04Z

“Bounty” asks why Trump won’t confront Vladimir Putin about U.S. intelligence reports that Russia offered bounties for the killing of American soldiers in Afghanistan. The Lincoln Project’s plan for preserving the union: Drive Trump out of office by driving him nuts 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Current and former military were at the event, including five members of the Marine company involved in the deadly ambush in Kabul that left 13 American service members killed in August during the Afghanistan withdrawal. Veterans’ fundraiser draws Bruce Springsteen and Jon Stewart 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Danny Chen was dragged from his bed on a base in Afghanistan and forced to crawl on the ground while his fellow soldiers threw rocks at him while yelling ethnic slurs. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

On both the Iran and Afghanistan issues, self-described independents were closer to the Democrats' view than that of Republicans. Poll: Global policy a hit at home 2012-05-18T06:05:00Z

Robert Byron’s “The Road to Oxiana” is the diary of a journey through Persia and Afghanistan in the early 1930s. Review | We may not be able to leave the house, but these transporting books whisk us to Central Asia 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

It was the same as Afghanistan: very scary and violent. 'My worries are not over': diary of a 16-year-old Afghan refugee 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Perhaps there is some hokey emotional chemistry at work here, but, in the process, Hosseini is communicating to millions of people a supple, conflicted and complex picture of his origin country, Afghanistan. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini – review 2013-05-26T09:00:01Z

They were stationed together at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and deployed to Afghanistan together as platoon commanders, only a few miles apart in the city of Nawa, in May 2011. With Compass Coffee, two ex-Marines find their way home

CIA jobs in Afghanistan are hardship posts, meaning employees are not allowed to bring their children. 'Homeland' recap: Besieged CIA director tries to shift blame 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Lepage is aware of the connections a British audience is likely to make, after a certain British prince visited Vegas before heading to another desert in Afghanistan. Director Robert Lepage: risking it all 2012-10-08T17:31:23Z

So here we are, 15 years after 9/11, with the U.S. still stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan, now with boots on the ground in Syria. The endless aftermath: Since 9/11, we’ve had 15 years of bloodshed, terror and a constant fear of what’s next 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

The vocal group 4 Troops is made up of three veterans who served in Iraq and one who served in Afghanistan. Week Ahead: May 30 ? June 5 2010-05-28T15:11:00Z

What inspired you to begin the Afghanistan National Institute of Music?A strong belief in the incredible power of music, and specifically its ability to bring restoration and peace to Afghanistan. Dr Ahmad Sarmast 2013-05-10T13:15:29Z

“He came up to me and said, ‘What’s the next one?’ ” she recalled, “and I said, ‘Afghanistan.’ Angelina Jolie?s First Directing Effort Is Serious 2011-12-06T23:28:47Z

The squad’s history in Afghanistan, and complicity in abuses there, plays a part. Review: In ‘Armed Response,’ a Prison Has a Mind of Its Own 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Cyrus says Landsberry made the “ultimate sacrifice” to save his students after serving three terms in Afghanistan and represents the courage of the Vietnam veteran honored in his patriotic song, “Some Gave All.” Billy Ray Cyrus honors slain NV teacher at concert 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

For Time the answer appeared to be in the cover line, which referred to the debate about the continued presence of Nato troops: "What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan". Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z

After their deployment to Afghanistan, however, they band together to secure territory and engage the enemy. Review: War Made Terrifyingly Palpable in ‘Citizen Soldier’ 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

It warned that the US was still the principal target for al-Qaida, and that "Pakistan and Afghanistan continue to be the operational base for the group that attacked us on 9/11". US troops to start Afghan withdrawal next year, says White House 2010-12-16T13:17:19Z

But, increasingly, Americans were objecting to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Lives of American Soldiers, Before and After War 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

And as with Vietnam or Afghanistan, our motives heading into war seemed just as murky as the outcome. The dehumanizing of Iraqis is the main 'American Sniper' issue 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

And playwright Oliver Emanuel’s heart-wrenching tale, of two sibling Afghan refugees on a harrowing journey to London, hits with renewed resonance following the United States’ tumultuous withdrawal from Afghanistan earlier this year. Review | Studio Theatre’s ‘Flight’ soars by tackling big issues with miniature models 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

An estimated 11% of veterans deployed to Afghanistan and 20% of those deployed to Iraq have PTSD, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. 'Guilt was the biggest injury': how veterans are using poetry to heal 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

The next day, we continued our uphill walk and made camp after crossing a lunar landscape that reminded me of Afghanistan and Ladakh, in northern India. In China, Negotiating Peaks and Police 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

He was a combat engineer in the 20th Engineer Brigade at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, and served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Susie Saavedra, Jose Feliz 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

One Army captain who took her workshop dedicated an American flag to her when he returned to his base in Afghanistan. With Her Eerily Timely “Indecent,” Paula Vogel Unsettles American Theatre Again 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Seven years later he was engaged by the British Army as an official war artist in Helmand province, Afghanistan. After the Brexit Vote, Mark Neville Looks at Life in “Little Britain” 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

You've made films about torture in Afghanistan, about the corruption of Enron, about the Church of Scientology, trying to get all kinds of people to trust you, who arguably have a reason — Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

Making things even more complicated: Kieran killed himself because his closeted boyfriend, the son of the most outspoken, bigoted zombie hater in Roarton, went off to Afghanistan and got himself killed. “In The Flesh”: a suicidal, gay, post-zombie story 2013-06-06T19:11:00Z

The only room that is in real disarray—bedclothes scrambled, belongings spilling from bags—belonged to Private Danny Chen, who took his own life in Afghanistan. Knowing War Intimately 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Afghanistan has a strong musical tradition, influenced by Iranian and Indian classical music, and a thriving pop music scene flourished in the past 20 years. Afghan music school students flown out, headed to Portugal 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

The Afghanistan and Africa episodes were the least successful. is about people and work and home and relationships; it shouldn't worry about distant wars. Howard Goodall's Story of Music; Being Human; Borgen – TV review 2013-02-04T07:00:06Z

Afghanistan is strikingly picturesque, which is a bonus, but the film is strongest when staring deeply into the country’s wounds. Review: ‘Frame by Frame’ Looks at Four Intrepid Afghan Photojournalists 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

The magazine reported from Afghanistan long before the attacks of September 11th catapulted the Taliban into world view. The Slow Strangulation of a South Asian Magazine 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

But in the end, like so many things in Afghanistan, his motives remain frustratingly unclear. Books of The Times: ‘The Tender Soldier’ Examines the U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy 2013-08-27T20:58:37Z

“He said, ‘My wife gave me your Hemingway book before I went on deployment and, when I was in Afghanistan, I read a chapter every night to just clear my head.’” A Cocktail Writer’s Life: The Pentagon by Day, a Barstool by Night 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

But for Firooz, the best way to express herself is through rap, a musical genre that is just starting to generate a following in Afghanistan. First female rapper debuts in Afghanistan 2012-10-09T12:17:09Z

There are no answers, but their future depends not just on what the Taliban does, but how deeply civil society has taken root in Afghanistan over the past two decades. Perspective | Artists and cultural workers face life under Taliban 2.0 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

India's "nightmare scenario" is that this ad hoc set of actions results in a long-term trend in which terrorist groups are able to find permanent sanctuary in Afghanistan. US embassy cables: India accuses Pakistan of supporting Taliban 2010-12-16T21:30:37Z

His embrace of this fatalistic credo made it easier for him to fly planes into enemy territory during tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Anti-Trump Republican Adam Kinzinger accepts his fate, whatever it is 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

With all that mayhem unleashed in Syria or Somalia, Iraq or Afghanistan, why would upscale designer jeans brandish a label like Destruction? Artists are just this screwed: When capitalism markets rebellion, how does the rebel stand outside? 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

He described Afghanistan and Pakistan as "complex places torn by conflicting loyalties, and some who do not want our mission of educating girls to succeed." 'Three Cups of Tea' author defends book 2011-04-18T13:12:00Z

Jolie, who presented her movie "In the Land of Blood and Honey" at the Berlin International Film Festival, told reporters Monday that even her husband Brad Pitt is unfamiliar with her Afghanistan idea. Jolie says she has idea for Afghanistan movie 2012-02-13T13:13:10Z

From Ukraine and Yemen to Afghanistan and elsewhere, many desperate people are in need not just of assistance, but long-term solutions that provide a chance for them to rebuild their lives. What classic literature says about refugees fleeing war 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

The first episode of season four was entitled “The Drone Queen”, with Mathison in Kabul, Afghanistan, as the CIA’s youngest ever station chief. Claire Danes on the end of Homeland: 'It was so nice to play such a badass' 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

“Murph,” for example, is in recognition of Navy Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy, who was killed in Afghanistan on June 28th, 2005, and subsequently received the Congressional Medal of Honor.  CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z

For her master’s degree in international relations at Boston University, she studied with an expert on Afghanistan, became fascinated with the country and landed an internship there. What does Afghanistan need? Some major rebranding, says its 32-year-old ambassador. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The company donates one percent of its profits to help children in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. Saffron Harvested by Female Farmers 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

With its focus on Pakistan, “The Wrong Enemy” is a valuable contribution to a hefty body of work on the American war in Afghanistan that has become stale and somewhat hackneyed. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

I've worked in Afghanistan for years, and have taken great risks to produce some of my work, and the very least I expect is to be acknowledged as the author of that work. Marksta app - fighting for photography copyright 2013-01-09T00:17:00Z

The Pentagon counts more than 6,300 American dead and 33,000 wounded in action in Iraq and Afghanistan. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

After the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we now have a more distressing and thorough knowledge of the stresses of the soldier’s life, and the psychological trauma that may follow. Review: ‘Blueprint Specials’: What the Soldiers and Sailors May Have Seen in World War II Shows 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Prince Harry, who served two tours with the army in Afghanistan, was famously snapped naked in a Las Vegas hotel in 2012. The other Harry and Megan get ready to tie the knot 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

The items include examples of the Begram Ivories, seen at the British Museum's Afghanistan 2011 exhibition, and an important sculpture of Buddha. Looted art back in Afghan museum 2012-07-19T12:10:56Z

Ahmed is also an executive producer on “Flee,” the animated documentary about an Afghanistan migrant’s twisting path to a new life in Denmark and, ultimately, to self-acceptance. In a blistering Oscar short film, Riz Ahmed finds catharsis 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

The history of poetry in Afghanistan dates back millennia. Afghanistan has poetry in its soul 2012-05-21T11:50:01Z

The colleagues I've lost over the years in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Stephanie Sinclair's best photograph: child brides in Yemen 2013-05-22T15:11:11Z

"I don't think there are many guys in my position -- I'm just a silly actor -- that get an opportunity to come out to Afghanistan at a time of war and get to experience this." "Hurt Locker" star braves real Afghan minefield 2010-06-27T15:25:00Z

Any surviving evidence of Afghanistan's tumultuous history has either been very fortunate, very robust, or very diligently protected. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-03T08:00:01Z

He led two expeditions of exploration into Afghanistan, both nominally commercial, but in reality political. William Dalrymple's top 10 books on Afghanistan 2013-03-27T11:27:32Z

Trump’s scaling up of the military presence in Afghanistan and bombing of a Syrian airfield have been welcomed there, he argues. Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

That sounds cringingly maudlin, but Ackerman, who served as a Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of the best soldier-writers of his generation. Perspective | What books to read this fall 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

The movie shifts between locations, including secret CIA centers in foreign countries known as Black sites, the Pakistan city of Islamabad and Camp Chapman, in Khost, Afghanistan. Bin Laden movie "Zero Dark Thirty" arrives, mired in controversy 2012-12-17T19:13:29Z

When the bombardments started in Afghanistan after 9/11, I decided it was too dangerous for my family. Free at last... and they all owe?their lives to Amnesty 2011-04-02T23:11:34Z

Whether in Afghanistan, Congo or Kosovo, she was struck by the sameness of her world. How to Help Endangered and Impoverished Peoples 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Representing Maxwell Davies at his most engaged, it's an angry work that bears witness to "our disastrous interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan – comparable only to the folly of the medieval crusades and the Crimean war." RLPO/Petrenko – review 2012-06-11T17:10:04Z

Is this a reflection, then, of the secondary status of women in ancient Iran, Afghanistan and western India, the principal areas where Persian has been spoken and written? Review | At last, we hear the beautiful — and sometimes bawdy — Persian poems by women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

His reputation after that accomplishment carried into the new century: President Obama asked him to try to work the same peacemaking magic in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Review: ‘The Diplomat,’ on HBO, Traces the Global Life of Richard C. Holbrooke 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Ma and Sarmast exchanged high-fives with the students, some of whom also played traditional instruments of Afghanistan, after the Mozart recital. Yo-Yo Ma plays Mozart with Afghan refugees in Portugal 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Sopko oversees one of the most difficult and dangerous civilian assignments left in Afghanistan as Uncle Sam extracts himself from that 13-year slog, the longest U.S. war. ‘It’s John against the world right now’

In the preface to "One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War," Bing West announces that "this is my sixth and final book about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." A gripping 'One Million Steps' examines Marines in Afghanistan 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Will Zinaida do as the unknown intruder asks, and publicly eat her words about Russia and Afghanistan? 'The Americans' Recap: You Should Trust the Organization 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rothschild spent a year in Iraq and seven months in Afghanistan. In the Marines, a Connection Between Art and Combat 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

According to one study, Trump’s accelerated bombing campaign in Afghanistan increased civilian casualties by 330 percent. ‘Reign of Terror’ Brilliantly Traces the Course From 9/11 to President Trump 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Set "somewhere in Afghanistan or elsewhere" in the near-present, the action is confined to a room where a woman tends her comatose husband, shot weeks before in a trivial brawl over honour. The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z

Like the character in the story, you grew up in the United States, but your father was from Afghanistan and, as a child, you went to Logar to visit his relatives. Jamil Jan Kochai on the Intimate Alienation of Video Games 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

We dipped down into stark rock-faced valleys that looked like Afghanistan, and then climbed back up toward rolling countryside that looked like England, with fields divided by low stone walls. Cultured Traveler: On a Road Trip in Sicily, Churches Everywhere 2013-05-31T18:22:52Z

I can read anecdotes of backpackers in Afghanistan on a travel forum. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

Mr Solomon is drawn to countries that are struggling or being transformed: Afghanistan, Myanmar, South Africa, Cambodia. The art of looking 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

She notes that ultramarine blue appeared in Egyptian art thousands of years ago, despite having to be imported from Afghanistan. Now supply-chain woes have come for the color blue 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Moreover, "There was no centralized national military strategy for Afghanistan." 'Lions of Kandahar': the relentless cycle of the war in Afghanistan 2011-07-31T04:09:21Z

It doesn't take long to be reminded of Afghanistan. Centurion kicks off British sword and sandals film wave 2010-04-22T22:15:00Z

American audiences will have no problem sizing up the situation as a quagmire, even without the production’s modern-day setting, complete with tan-colored fatigues that would not look out of place in Afghanistan. Review: ‘Troilus and Cressida,’ a Trojan War Love Story 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Seventeen years after “peace” was declared in Afghanistan at a conference in Bonn, Germany, in December 2001, the Taliban controls or is fighting for half the districts in the country. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Rasmussen, now 40, has known he wanted to tell the story of Amin’s flight from Afghanistan for nearly two decades, even though he only vaguely knew what his friend went through. A Refugee’s Harrowing Story, Finally Told Through Animation 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

I’m sure that if there was a draft today and young people were faced with the idea of going to Syria or Afghanistan, they would have a louder voice. Watch John Mellencamp's Video for "Troubled Man": Premiere 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Previously she was a foreign correspondent in Berlin and reported from Afghanistan and Iraq. NPR: Rachel Martin hosts "Weekend Edition Sunday" 2011-12-08T22:01:10Z

Both films remind us of the roots of today’s Black Lives Matter movement and the never-ending American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's 1967 all over again: The roots of our current divide go back 50 years 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

"It's even worse for our troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan," Hanks says. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

“After years of searching every few months, I found his name online and realised he was working as a nurse in Afghanistan, taking care of children who’d been blown up by landmines,” says Brooks. How we met: ‘She was the love of my life – but she had to focus on getting sober’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Your story in this week’s issue, “Crossing the River No Name,” is about a group of Navy SEALs on patrol in Afghanistan. This Week in Fiction: Will Mackin on Life In and Out of the Military 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

They are similar in concept to the drones that are flying over Afghanistan, but they are way smaller, much cheaper and they don’t carry terrorist-obliterating weaponry. Remarkable Drone Camera Captures Detroit's Ups And Downs Like Never Before 2012-07-16T17:16:27Z

"This is all providing a model for the future of Afghanistan," said William Harvey, the Afghan orchestra's American conductor and arranger. Young Afghan musicians in NY for date at Carnegie 2013-02-12T10:31:05Z

Saul is no longer at the C.I.A., but he hasn’t gone far, working instead for a private security firm with Defense Department contracts in Afghanistan and other hot spots. ‘Homeland’ Begins Its New Season on Sunday 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Patrick Hennessey is the author of “The Junior Officer’s Reading Club,” a memoir of five years in the British Army during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Books of The Times: The Flesh and Blood Behind the AK-47 2010-12-02T22:57:00Z

He changed his mind after a show at the Pentagon, where he performed it for a group of Marines who were shipping out to Afghanistan. Toby Keith was a loud political voice in the Bush years. What about the Trump era? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

In Australia, where security has been designed and sold by American corporations, the worm sets a multitude of inmates free—just as it does in Texas, Afghanistan and Kurdistan. Forget-me-not 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Service members from the American Revolution to the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq are laid to rest here. Explore Arlington National Cemetery on a free walking tour 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

In the interview, Colbert cited statistics that showed that since 2001 more Americans had died in Chicago than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Spike Lee: female students should go on sex strike to combat campus rape 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Evacuees leaving Afghanistan landed in European countries as Poland reinforced its border with Belarus. AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Next is a piece about the similarities between cases of post-traumatic stress disorder seen in inner-city Americans and Afghanistan war vets. The Ira Glass / This American Life way of reporting the news 2013-06-23T18:30:03Z

As it happened, Amal began her European walk in the summer of 2021, shortly after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, which spurred a fresh migration crisis in Europe. Little Amal Arrives in New York, With a Message of Hope and Humanity 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Surveillance balloons over Afghanistan, even cheaper than drones. What Does a Poet Know About War? 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Few argued the strategy or ethics of invading Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Perspective | Even the best films about Afghanistan couldn’t have prepared us for this scene 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

“Changing clothes, it’s like changing your life,” Ali, from Afghanistan, said. How Migrants New to Paris Express Themselves Through Style 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Without some fresh angle to renew the American public's interest in Afghanistan, it's just another war that has tragically outlived the nation's attention span. The "Hurt Locker" reality show controversy 2010-08-27T14:28:00Z

Marine veteran of the war in Afghanistan, the entire experience — the early morning car ride, the story you’re reading and how I came to work on his television show — is equal parts surreal and ridiculous. Finding solace through helping a TV show understand war 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

Of all the indignities and tragedies Homeira Qaderi and her family endured when the Taliban seized Herat, Afghanistan, the most poignant to read about is her father’s ritual of hiding the family’s books. Homeira Qaderi Wants Her Son to Know Her, So She Wrote a Book 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

“It’s like borders don’t matter anymore,” says Lisa, who eases her regrets by doing humanitarian work in Afghanistan. Review: ‘National Bird’ Follows Whistle-Blowers in America’s Drone War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The former British Ambassador to Moscow describes how the Russians reluctantly decided to enter Afghanistan thinking they would be able to leave in less than a year, but ended up staying for ten years. VIDEO: Meet the Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite 2011-03-03T23:07:21Z

The scarcity of songs about the economic disaster stands in contrast to the flurry of pop songs in the mid-2000s blaming President George W. Bush’s foreign policy for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Occupy Wall Street Protest Lacks an Anthem 2011-10-18T22:24:02Z

Aerial warfare at the start of the first world war was very different from what goes on over Afghanistan these days. When Romeo Met Juliet and Fighting the Red Baron 2010-06-04T21:15:00Z

Biden scoffed at Republicans — and some Democrats — who say the United States would have been better served maintaining a small military footprint in Afghanistan. Biden defends departure from ‘forever war’ in Afghanistan 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Two military personnel pose for portraits in Afghanistan. Ed Drew's Afghanistan: the first wet-plate conflict photos in 150 years 2013-07-22T16:01:24Z

One Afghan man told him, “Our country is, right now, is finished. No more Afghanistan.” Journalists face danger on Kabul streets and a new question: How to cover Afghanistan now? 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

Less than one per cent of the country has served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Women of color have embraced the words feminism and feminist as their own, along with women all over the world, including Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. Robin Morgan on Why Feminist Is a 21st Century Word 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

“Life is already full of tension and fear in Afghanistan. This is at least a small opportunity for lovers to express their inner feelings, to enjoy those feelings and emotions,” she said. 'Mr and Ms Valentine': Afghanistan celebrates with roses and fashion 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Ochieng also discloses some of his own political views, complaining about U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Iraq and saying the U.S. refuses to "tame" Israel, which he calls a "Trojan horse in the Middle East." FACT CHECK: Anti-Obama film muddy on facts 2012-08-28T12:22:16Z

The actions of these few would turn 9/11 into a day that changed history by leading to two American-led invasions as part of the Global War on Terrorism: Afghanistan and then Iraq. The enduring damage of 9/11: How the War on Terror gave rise to a bigger threat in the form of ISIS 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

In March of 2012, on her final patrol in Afghanistan, she discovered a 30-pound bomb and was searching for more when a second device detonated. Marine Corps dog wins prize for bravery in Afghanistan 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

In the preface to a booklet that accompanies what will be the ivories' first public showing outside Afghanistan, British Museum director Neil MacGregor alludes to the miracle that brought these ivories back to light. The Begram ivories: Rescuing Afghanistan's lost history 2011-02-27T00:05:25Z

While these dynamics persist across generations and cultures, he noted that there are different approaches to family in the United States than in Afghanistan, where he spent much of his childhood. Khaled Hosseini weaves global family ties in latest best seller 2013-07-05T20:31:18Z

The film is about a man who fled Afghanistan as a child in the 1980s. Audiences go for a second helping of ‘Encanto’ 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

After coming home from the War in Afghanistan, the unnamed narrator of “Guns of Umpqua” finds himself barricading the doors to stop his classmates from being murdered in the Umpqua Community College shooting of 2014. The new “American Idiot”: Why Drive-By Truckers’ “American Band” is essential listening in the Trump era 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

As the United States ends its combat mission, the cold reality is that Afghanistan’s future hinges just as much on Pakistan as it does on what happens inside Afghanistan’s borders. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

A scene that to most would only occur in the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez is part of our reality in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has poetry in its soul 2012-05-21T11:50:01Z

This tour and sold out performance in Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts showcased ANIM's vision and achievements while building bridges between Afghanistan and the wider world. Dr Ahmad Sarmast 2013-05-10T13:15:29Z

"These knives are made through various techniques and incorporate metal from vehicles, shrapnel, and rifle barrels that saw actual combat from the Battle of the Bulge to Afghanistan," he notes on the company's website. Veterans making a difference are spotlighted ahead of Army-Navy football game 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

America initially regarded the dashing Pushtun tribal leader as just the man to run post-Taliban Afghanistan, Joshua Partlow, a journalist with the Washington Post, writes in “A Kingdom of Their Own”. Karzai Inc 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The challenges were there, but I kept comparing them to the huge challenges I had in Afghanistan — and they were nothing compared to them. Deborah Rodriguez: 'Kabul Beauty School' author turns to Mazatlan 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

That is, if he has any time after visiting a nearby school the Taliban previously shut down, followed by an in-depth briefing from all US commanders in southeast Afghanistan. 15 minutes with David Petraeus: In which he uses his Jedi-like ability to ramble at will while I sit in stupefied silence 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

And moviegoers’ neglect of these films is also somehow fitting, given that many of us prefer to spend as much time as possible not thinking about what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. | 'Armadillo': Fortunes and Misfortunes of War, From a Danish Perspective 2011-04-14T23:21:04Z

The Veterans of Foreign Wars called the show "offensive" while Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Of America said it will further stigmatize veterans. Vets Aren't Happy With OITNB Season 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

It is especially compelling in the face of President Trump’s announcement that he is sending an additional 4,000 servicemen and women to Afghanistan. How men recover from war 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

What’s new is that Ham’s subjects are American men and women in the military killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, grouped in a somber memorial. Review | In the galleries: A century apart, Khalil Gibran and contemporary artists explore questions of home and displacement at MEI Art Gallery 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

All that was accomplished after 9/11 was forcing the Taliban to retreat into the villages of Afghanistan and western Pakistan and wait us out. Afghanistan, a Double Bind and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Prince Harry is serving with British troops in Afghanistan. Britain's royal family attends Christmas services 2012-12-25T12:05:09Z

His recent movements have tracked from Paris to London to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Review | Guantanamo drama ‘4,380 Nights’ finds history repeating 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

He worked comfortably alongside the US-led coalition in Afghanistan and – less comfortably – in Iraq. Interventions: : A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan – review 2012-11-15T08:00:04Z

DC Moore's The Empire at the Royal Court upstairs is about Afghanistan and could prove explosive. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-04-02T11:30:00Z

Indian interlocutors presented a bleak assessment of the current situation in Afghanistan. US embassy cables: India accuses Pakistan of supporting Taliban 2010-12-16T21:30:37Z

A disturbing undercurrent of relevance… the British army in Afghanistan today. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple – review 2013-01-23T09:01:01Z

Each was engraved with a letter from an American soldier in wars from the Revolution to Afghanistan. Cruising the Past, from Baltimore to Charleston 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

I had shied away from Afghanistan because I felt so many great photographers were already working there. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z

Later Friday the prince met wounded soldiers from Estonia’s army units, which served primarily under British command during their 11-year deployment in Afghanistan. Prince Harry thanks Estonia for Afghan campaign 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

However, infrastructure constraints mean most of this honey never leaves Afghanistan. Busy bees turn Afghan schoolgirl into an entrepreneur 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

The jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s was regarded, uncontroversially, as a defensive war to protect a Muslim country against the atheist Soviet communist invader. Men of war 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Renner said he had decided to visit Afghanistan because he wanted to see the tangible work being done. "Hurt Locker" star braves real Afghan minefield 2010-06-27T15:25:00Z

The journalists also want to find Fort1 — whose name is later found to be Wade Castle — because one of them was in Afghanistan when another drone strike he commanded killed several children before her eyes. Review: Dan Fesperman’s ‘Unmanned’: Timely novel about military use of drones

Farther east, the Taliban are resurgent in Afghanistan. ‘The New Arabs,’ by Juan Cole 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

She admonishes agencies in Afghanistan, for example, for being too tied to the policy of coalition forces. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z

The sergeant reportedly left his base after becoming disillusioned with incompetence and bureaucracy in Afghanistan, wandering around until he was captured by the Taliban. Zero Dark Thirty team plan film about freed prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

His father's work took them to Paris, and then, when the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan prevented them from returning home, they sought political asylum in the United States and settled in California. Khaled Hosseini: 'If I could go back now, I'd take The Kite Runner apart' 2013-06-01T08:29:01Z

But instead of Austria and the Nazis, Habib’s family lives in Afghanistan and the bad guys are the Taliban. Summer Book Club: ‘Shooting Kabul’ 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, the agency says the threat is not only crime, but also terrorism, civil unrest and armed conflict. New Country Rankings Aim to Help Travelers Choose Safe Destinations 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

The May 20 march will feature Iraq Veterans Against the War who will give up their service medals to demand NATO's immediate withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan, organizer Aaron Hughes said Thursday. Occupy protesters plan to march without permits, target Boeing at NATO summit 2012-05-11T12:02:00Z

But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan accelerated the transformation of mercenaries "from covert and infamous to acceptable and indispensable," Hagedorn writes. 'The Invisible Soldiers' warns of private security forces' rise 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Hardcastle said his aim was to raise awareness and ensure that the British people did not forget that soldiers were fighting and dying in Afghanistan. Musician remixes anti-war hit "19" for Afghanistan 2010-04-01T13:05:00Z

Her mother, who does humanitarian work in some conservative, remote areas of southern Afghanistan, says she's careful not to mention her daughter's budding career. First female rapper debuts in Afghanistan 2012-10-09T12:17:09Z

“Both candidates want to end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan,” my husband says. I married a Republican 2012-09-21T23:30:00Z

It’s 2013 and the Obama Administration has started drawing down its troops in Afghanistan. 13 Seattle-area arts-and-culture events to look forward to in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

The subject has become more timely, they say, because of the recent troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. 9/11 Museum’s 20th-Anniversary Exhibitions Become Victims of Cuts 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

Tony Perry covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. 'With Their Bare Hands' tracks America's ascension to military power during WWI 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

So many years later, fragmented memories from my time in Afghanistan still flood my head when I least expect them. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

“Svetlana Alexievich’s books deal with historical crises—the Second World War, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, and the collapse of the Soviet Union—through the voices of ordinary individuals.” Sunday Reading: Russian Literature 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

There are skateboard parks in Afghanistan, a children's community centre made out of waste concrete, a Chinese school that doubles as a bridge, plus interviews, reports, and reams of facts and figures. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-05-25T14:35:10Z

Clearly, widely differing schools marked by the Greek legacy thrived in Afghanistan, a remark that equally applies to the many Hellenistic-period sculptures dug up on the territory of Iran. Art Review: Murky Exploration of an Iranian Past 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z

Taking to the stage, he said that, had he seen these plays before going to Afghanistan in 2005, they "would have made me a much better commander". How The Great Game emptied the Pentagon 2011-03-01T21:29:00Z

This year's winner, announced at lunchtime today, is The Two Worlds of Charlie F, a piece created from the stories of injured soldiers returning from Afghanistan and performed by them. Edinburgh fringe: day 17 on the fringe 2012-08-23T16:05:54Z

Because although Afghanistan is a long way away, we also know that what starts in Afghanistan doesn’t end in Afghanistan. International Rescue Committee CEO: ‘The way refugees are seen is a running commentary on our own values’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

But it’s also a kind of Rorschach test of any viewer’s attitudes about war, the military and the United States’ amorphous 13-year mission in Afghanistan. “The Kill Team”: When U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan became trophy hunters 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

It challenges every citizen of this country to examine exactly what we're asking soldiers to do in Afghanistan. Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman wins Orwell prize 2012-05-24T10:22:40Z

A former soldier who fought in Afghanistan, Turner says that he was “medically discharged” with recurrent depression and post-traumatic stress disorder before traveling to the Peruvian Amazon effectively to disappear. ‘Wildcat’ Review: Rescue and Rewild 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

By that time, it became clear that, wow, we could actually, maybe, use it as a chance to explore this final chapter in the war in Afghanistan, the longest war in U.S. history. "Taking sides is not my job": "Retrograde" filmmaker Matthew Heineman on documenting a war's end 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

The Taliban’s destruction of the great Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan in 2001 was no isolated incident in the larger scheme of religious faith. ‘Object of Devotion,’ an Exhibition of Alabaster Sculptures 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

He had survived a career in the unrest of the developing world — Albania, Afghanistan, Egypt, Nepal, Mongolia — but those steps in California were his last. My Return to Nepal, in Memoriam 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Proceeds of the sale will benefit the Ray of Light Foundation, which supports girls' education in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries. Madonna's French painting sells in NYC for $7.2M 2013-05-08T04:27:08Z

You were part of a Navy Special Ops team deployed in Afghanistan. This Week in Fiction: Will Mackin on Life In and Out of the Military 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

The paratroopers have their own songs, but they tend to be about the Soviet military operation in Afghanistan or the separatist wars in Chechnya in the 1990s. Russia's unlikely protest song rocks rally 2012-02-05T13:38:07Z

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcasts news and other programing in 26 languages to Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iran, and a range of other countries. Radio Free Europe, Voice of America launch new Russian-language TV channel 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Today, almost 5,000 German soldiers are serving alongside Americans and British troops in Afghanistan. TV drama reopens debate over Germans' war guilt 2013-03-28T15:43:07Z

The program, part of the Digital Citizen Fund started by Afghan social entrepreneur and Time 100 person of the year Roya Mahboob, seeks to expand digital literacy for women and girls throughout Afghanistan. “If we did not protest, no one would punish those men”: A brutal murder, a sham trial, and justice denied in Kabul 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

In it, Lund is a passport controller in a small town, but then her former boss Lennart Brix calls in her help on a murder case connected to the killing of civilians in Afghanistan. The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z

American soldiers collapsed from oxygen starvation in Afghanistan. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Judith Matloff on Why Mountains Attract War 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Robert Baer describes having to parachute out of a plane near Afghanistan in the middle of a storm alongside Russian airmen with whom he had been drinking heavily the night before. Exhibition Review: ‘Exquisitely Evil,’ Bond Villains at International Spy Museum 2012-11-15T23:35:07Z

However not all reaction was negative and some other users supported the move, saying it reinforced Afghanistan’s national identity: “I am from Afghanistan, not Persia or the Persian race,” wrote one. BBC name change stirs language row in Afghanistan 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

I was determined to keep my promise to Gino; to return to Afghanistan and finish the project I had started. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z

Families of some of the hundreds of British troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan have criticized Blair for earning millions from the book and public speaking and since leaving office. Blair memoir excites booksellers, riles critics 2010-08-31T15:55:00Z

RICHMOND, Va. — Hamidullah Noori was 8 years old when his father, uncle and cousin were killed by Taliban militants in Kabul, Afghanistan. They Fled Afghanistan for America. Now They Feed the Newest Arrivals. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Then three plays set in Iran or Afghanistan, written by playwrights of Middle Eastern descent, offered her real scope. Marjan Neshat on Her ‘Kind of Miraculous Season’ Onstage 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Conner Lowry, 24, a gunner on a Humvee, was killed last week in Afghanistan. Solemn procession for fallen Marine 2012-03-09T16:55:00Z

She made a wartime visit to Afghanistan in 2005 under heavy guard. Laura Bush’s latest role: Booster of her husband’s legacy

I met a wedding party; a Texas family celebrating the return of a daughter from Afghanistan; a middle-aged couple from Nebraska. Seeing the Whole of Antigua 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

“From Algeria, from Russia, from India, from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan a lot, Cambodia. You know, all the waves.” A Theater Visionary ‘Nourished by the World’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Now they are in Afghanistan with me and the reality of making the film is upon us all. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z

Rap and hip-hop are just starting to gain popularity in Afghanistan, particularly among the youth. First female rapper debuts in Afghanistan 2012-10-09T12:17:09Z

While they followed different paths, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq all began relatively small, before growing large and ruinous.  Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z

We woke up in the morning and it was the biggest blizzard ever in Afghanistan. Buzkashi Boys shoots for Oscar with tale of Afghan child dreamers 2013-02-15T18:28:28Z

Afghanistan is rendered less as a country and more as a dreamscape. The Echoes and Echoes and Echoes of War 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

The group turned east on Lake Street to stop at the Canadian consulate at 2 Prudential Plaza to protest the use of Canadian troops in Afghanistan. Dozens protest outside Obama headquarters, NATO country consulates 2012-05-17T18:25:00Z

Another $18 billion has been appropriated for Afghanistan reconstruction but not yet disbursed. ‘It’s John against the world right now’

First came the Florida recount, then 9/11, then the invasion of Afghanistan, then the invasion of Iraq. Lester Holt’s path from country music DJ to the most powerful perch in news 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The difference with the late 1990s, when I first started reporting on Muslim extremism while working in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is immense. Jason Burke: the key books on Muslim extremism 2012-11-07T19:08:19Z

I did a journey in the early 70s which is virtually impossible to do now – in eastern Turkey and Iran, then northern and southern Afghanistan, and around Kashmir, northern Pakistan. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

It became a symbol of a new Afghanistan, with boys and girls studying together and performing to full houses in the United States and Europe. Afghan musicians look to recreate famed school in Portugal 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

But they were quick to note that the land now called Afghanistan has been subjugated to upheaval and political turmoil for thousands of years. For Afghans Abroad, Nowruz Is a Chance to Reflect 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images A few months before the 9/11 attacks I joined a unit of Iranian police and paramilitaries patrolling the country's eastern border with Afghanistan. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-25T10:00:01Z

The strumming of a sitar, the pounding of tablas, the plucking of a violin — these were coming from the hospital, now the makeshift home of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

It begins with a kidnapping in Afghanistan, where Stark is showing off defense technology to the United States military. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘For the People’ and ‘Wonder Woman’ 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

I ended up in Bagram military base in Afghanistan for two months. Free at last... and they all owe?their lives to Amnesty 2011-04-02T23:11:34Z

By the summer of 2002, the war in Afghanistan appeared to be winding down. Modern Love: A Surrender, After an Uneasy Peace 2012-04-05T21:27:32Z

His steadfast determination has today seen the number of schools built in Pakistan, and Afghanistan, to more than 50. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

They equate American soldiers’ accidental killing of civilians in Afghanistan with terrorist actions, which “denies one of the most basic and best understood moral distinctions: between premeditated murder and unintended killing.” ‘A Foreign Policy for the Left’ Review: Can There Be a ‘Decent’ Left? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

American bombing of Afghanistan had just begun, and I would watch the images of suffering on the news in my hotel room. Ahmed Errachidi: 'We shared one thing in Guantánamo Bay – pain' 2013-03-30T20:00:01Z

The Taliban, who have minimal support in Afghanistan, understand the deep yearning for peace in the country after decades of fighting. Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z

Afterward we head back to base, where the briefing room is prepared for a meeting of all the top commanders in southern Afghanistan. 15 minutes with David Petraeus: In which he uses his Jedi-like ability to ramble at will while I sit in stupefied silence 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary, was criticized for using a mechanized signature on condolence letters to the families of service members who had been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bob Dylan Gets Tangled Up in Book Autograph Controversy 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

“Got Your 6,” on Tuesday afternoon on MTV, follows four young men as they try to blend back into domestic life after fighting in Afghanistan. Networks Salute Veterans Day With Contemporary Shows 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

It is often forgotten that two wars are being fought in Afghanistan. Our Drugs War 2010-08-16T05:45:00Z

"The Taking of Prince Harry" depicts the prince, played by actor Sebastian Reid, serving in the military in Afghanistan and being kidnapped by insurgents. Prince Harry film sparks tabloid reactions 2010-10-07T17:44:00Z

They barely knew their father, a jihadist who died after being tortured at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. In ‘Home Fire,’ Lives Touched by Immigration, Jihad and Family Love 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

The sharp increase in interest in Afghanistan is in contrast to recent years, when America’s long military mission there was all but ignored by many news organizations, especially television. Journalists face danger on Kabul streets and a new question: How to cover Afghanistan now? 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

On "Homeland," Lewis plays a U.S Marine named Nick Brody who was a prisoner of war in Afghanistan. 'Homeland' stars promise more twists on 2nd season 2012-09-08T02:52:08Z

She begins military training and eventually makes her way to the front lines of battle in Afghanistan. In ‘Godsend,’ an Idealistic Young Woman Gets Tangled Up in Trouble in Afghanistan 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

Holbrooke’s frustration with Obama is laid bare in clips from a secret audio diary that the diplomat was recording in which he says the administration was making political, rather than strategic, decisions in Afghanistan. Searching for Richard Holbrooke 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Whenever I read accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I dream about my Army missions in Iraq. The Book That Taught Tammy Duckworth How to Mummify Human Remains 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

They resemble her well-known silkscreened copies of censored military and intelligence documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay. Art In Review: JENNY HOLZER: ?Endgame? 2012-03-15T21:44:07Z

In the first of many emails, Wish — writing from Afghanistan — astounded me with what he said. Perspective | As a Westboro Baptist member, she preached hate. Then she found understanding — through Twitter. 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, fashion, with its low barriers to entry, is not so much a symbol of self-indulgent indolence as a lever of advancement. ‘Made in Afghanistan’ Once Symbolized Hope. Now It’s Fear. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

They also represented a particular claim about which bits of Afghanistan's history were worth preserving: for the Taliban, the only "national culture" that mattered was the one that began in AD622. The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z

In the final days of the American war in Afghanistan, the school’s supporters led a frantic attempt to evacuate students and staff. 1,200 Miles From Kabul, a Celebrated Music School Reunites 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

He served in the British Army for 10 years, including two stints in Afghanistan. Prince Harry and Meghan Stepping Back, Explained 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Out of the 1,500 visas the U.S. could have issued to translators from Afghanistan, after a 2009 law, only three have been issued, according to Oliver. Must-see morning clip: John Oliver blasts U.S. for deplorable treatment of troop-saving interpreters 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Most impressive, however, are the rows of golden implements unearthed in Tillya Tepe — the "Hill of Gold" — in the northern plains of Afghanistan. Lost and Found: Afghan Treasures Reunite at the British Museum 2011-03-27T06:35:00Z

Josh Redick, who was sitting near the middle of the plane, said the captain seemed "irate" and was "spouting off about Afghanistan and souls and al-Qaida." JetBlue captain: 'They're going to take us down' 2012-03-28T11:26:00Z

It was two years ago that I was developing this film, and we were at the brink of withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan. In the Fall of Saigon, Lessons for Today 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Armadillo, Janus Metz's documentary about Danish soldiers in Afghanistan Guess which film knocked Prince of Persia off the top spot at the Danish box office this week. Armadillo: the Afghanistan war documentary that shocked Denmark 2010-06-03T20:45:00Z

I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice – it's within my grasp' 2013-03-23T22:24:20Z

"Since the invasion of Afghanistan by the animal Americans, this is almost the 10th time that they have degraded the holiest values of Muslims," said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid in an emailed statement. Afghans protest over reported Koran desecration at U.S. base 2012-02-21T14:29:03Z

The most recent painting, the starkly monochromatic “Fall of Kabul,” channels recent turmoil in Afghanistan into soft gray gestures redolent of smoke. Review | In the galleries: Renaissance influences synchronize with Magic Realism 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

His second tour took Tillman to Afghanistan and the front lines of confrontation with Taliban insurgents. 2010-02-04T00:35:00Z

As Aslam later wrote in "God and Me", a fragment of memoir in Granta in 2006: "My uncle's version of Islam was the same kind practised by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan three decades later." Nadeem Aslam: a life in writing 2013-01-26T10:00:03Z

Talk of drawdown is lost on him, though he will surely leave Afghanistan forever with his handler next year. A soldier’s best friend 2013-05-08T19:34:00Z

The experience of living through war is of particular relevance for present-day audiences accustomed to seeing 24-hour news coverage of conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why the tale of Achilles and his lover still has the power to move us 2012-06-02T23:06:04Z

Today, al-Qaida's senior leadership in the border region is under more pressure than at any point since they fled Afghanistan nine years ago. Barack Obama: Afghanistan war is on track 2010-12-16T21:31:39Z

That brought him back to Afghanistan where American and Afghan soldiers alike craved home-cooked Afghan meals instead of the frozen food shipped in from the U.A.E. and elsewhere. A Day in Houston: 3 Meals, 3 Cultures, One City 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

It spread the story that the United States Army was using its devices on the battlefield and in Afghanistan — a fabrication. How One Company Scammed Silicon Valley. And How It Got Caught. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Trump is quoted saying feckless things like, about the war in Afghanistan, “You should be killing guys. You don’t need a strategy to kill people.” In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump’s ‘Crazytown’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

While I hope Afghanistan is not going to be dismissed or forgotten, I hope my story is going to also interest people. Book Talk: Women in Afghanistan, through a looking glass 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Washington has spent between $900 billion and $2 trillion in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11 and certainly killed tens of thousands of Afghans in that never-ending war. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

The Obama administration will not swerve from plans to move into an advisory role in Afghanistan, U.S. officials say. 2 U.S. soldiers killed by Afghan soldier, civilian 2012-03-01T11:30:00Z

The ancestors, he said, were displeased with their decision to leave Afghanistan. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

It is disconcerting to see so many U.S. presidents refuse to see the futility of “conquering” Afghanistan, because they have made no effort to understand Afghanistan, its society and its people. Afghanistan, a Double Bind and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Rumi was born in the early thirteenth century, in what is now Afghanistan. The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

This provides the historical context and, combined with the realist animation, places Amin's individual story within the social and historical realities shared by many asylum seekers fleeing Afghanistan in the late 1980s. "Flee": Animation is a powerful medium for documentaries about conflict and refugees 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Many of the troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are in their forties and fifties, a consequence of multiple deployments of the National Guard and the Reserves. Easing the Pain of War with Country Songs 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

Our War: a mission deep into enemy territory is captured on camera by soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. TV review: Our War; Ian Brady – Endgames of a Psychopathm 2012-08-20T21:00:01Z

Now he hopes to study film-making internationally and return to Afghanistan to continue making movies there. Afghan film to premiere in Kabul after winning international awards 2012-10-04T13:35:41Z

The profession was already hit hard by Afghanistan’s foundering economy, along with the coronavirus pandemic, and some families now too fearful to work are selling off furniture to get by. Under Taliban, thriving Afghan music scene heads to silence 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

This book by an adjunct professor at Georgetown University charts several decades of relations between the United States and Afghanistan, focusing on what went awry after America’s successful routing of the Taliban in late 2001. ArtsBeat: A Survey of Books About Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda 2011-05-02T07:50:50Z

Photograph: The British Library Board The borderlands between Iran and Afghanistan have always been dangerous and marginal territory. Art treasures of the Mughal empire 2012-11-30T22:55:14Z

When the audience streamed out for lunch, the conversations were all about Afghanistan. How The Great Game emptied the Pentagon 2011-03-01T21:29:00Z

Oh of course they have, all men have softened – except those beautiful young men I often visit who have been in Afghanistan and who are injured at 19. Trailer trash 2012-07-21T23:05:58Z

Jonathan Alter’s revealing 2010 book, “The Promise,” provided a detailed look at President Obama’s first year in office, tracing his decision-making process on issues like health care reform and the Afghanistan war. Books of The Times: ‘The Center Holds,’ by Jonathan Alter 2013-06-02T20:54:13Z

Made in Chelsea was selected as best reality and constructed factual programme while BBC3's Afghanistan war documentary Our War was named the best factual series for the second year running. Last Tango dances off with Bafta prize for 'love story about people over 35' 2013-05-12T19:29:17Z

The book grew out of a notorious Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who was put in charge of the war in Afghanistan in 2009 and proceeded to blow up his own career. Review: ‘War Machine’: Brad Pitt Has Met the Enemy. He Just Doesn’t Know It Yet. 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Before the MI6 commission, he spent weeks on combat deployment in Afghanistan with the Grenadier Guards, one of Britain’s crack army units, and traveled abroad on several official tours with Prince Charles. Memo From Britain: Portrait of Spy Agency Leaves Much in Shadow 2011-02-21T00:14:06Z

He traveled to Afghanistan in 1989 to wage jihad; during a stint in a Jordanian prison, he emerged as a leader known and feared for his ruthlessness as an enforcer among Islamist inmates. Review: ‘Black Flags,’ Tracing the Birth of ISIS 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

I think it's a mixture of not wanting to break the army code and not being willing to open up the Pandora's box of all the sights and experiences they recall from Afghanistan. Motion's poetry of combat 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

"But then at the last minute this platoon got switched from Iraq to Afghanistan, and it was sort of 'game on' for us." 'Restrepo' documents Afghan war at human level 2010-07-15T21:07:00Z

Next to it, she keeps another container filled with the soil she collected from the campus of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Earlier — in July — American troops and Western allies departed the Bagram Air Base — leaving the Kabul airport as the only potential departure point for all those still in Afghanistan. Honor Carvings owner aims to keep memories of 13 fallen Americans alive 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

As a United States Marine in Afghanistan, Miles Lagoze, the director, worked as a videographer, documenting scenes of war for official release. ‘Combat Obscura’ Review: Afghanistan Uncensored 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

He continued travelling through Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and onwards. I cycled from India to Europe for love 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

He hopes it offers Americans a chance to ponder the sacrifices of our current soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

"I went to Afghanistan by myself -- that was scary." Sundance 2015: Scientology, Cruise, Travolta and a hot premiere 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

The Allied bombing of Afghanistan had commenced the night before. What Drives Stella McCartney 2012-02-22T11:58:00Z

We have a very good record of defence secretaries saying clever things about Afghanistan. William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z

The next year his regiment was transferred to India, where he fought Pushtun tribesmen on the border with Afghanistan, penning articles for the Daily Telegraph from a blood-splattered foxhole on the battlefield. Mr high-roller 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Instead, the C.I.A. flew him to Jordan, then to Afghanistan, and finally to Guantánamo, where he’s been ever since. Read “Guantánamo Diary” 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

But like Todd said, our son is over in Afghanistan. Sarah Palin: “Haters are going to hate” 2012-07-25T16:30:00Z

In early July, on the very same day the Pentagon announced it had completed 90 percent of the planned withdrawal from Afghanistan, former president George W. Bush sat for a rare, nationally televised interview. Perspective | George W. Bush’s wars are now over. He retreated a while ago. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

When she was 16, Hassani's family returned to Afghanistan, where she studied painting at Kabul University, earned her master's and started teaching. Afghan woman risks all to bring color to war-torn Kabul with her street art and feminist murals 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

Adventure travel companies report that soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan view even the most challenging itineraries as somewhat tame. Journeys: R&R Challenges for the Camouflage Set 2010-11-29T21:00:00Z

This film also completely rewrites the traditional script about U.S. military support in Afghanistan. Matthew Heineman’s documentary "Retrograde": A chilling, intimate view of the Afghanistan War's end 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

March 30 To Afghanistan, in Darkness and Secrecy Ever find your weekend plans interrupted? Bodies Altered in Pursuit of Beauty 2010-03-31T16:05:00Z

Sept. 11 is not only in the past, as you can see in the bloody news from Afghanistan. Is 9/11 a Day, or Is It an Era? 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

Still, “The Wrong Enemy” arrives at an auspicious time, just as the United States is ending its combat mission in Afghanistan. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

Addario won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 as part of a New York Times international reporting team covering the war in Afghanistan. 'Refugee' exhibition to spotlight plight of refugees in Europe and beyond 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Handed over to the American authorities, he was held in military bases in Afghanistan before being transferred to Guantánamo Bay, where he spent five-and-a-half years, most of them in solitary confinement. Ahmed Errachidi: 'We shared one thing in Guantánamo Bay – pain' 2013-03-30T20:00:01Z

The BBC said it was also expecting the Foreign Office to fund an extra £500,000 this financial year for new TV services in Afghanistan, Burma and Somalia. BBC World Service in funding cut 2013-06-11T15:57:46Z

That mixture of traditional and modern is important to keeping high-quality crafts alive in places like Afghanistan, said Ms. Small, who describes herself as an “ethical jewelry maker.” An Afghan Bazaar Parachutes Into Washington 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Missing the months of hard work, the forest of blooms and the success of the Afghanistan ask, The Washington Post’s Al Kamen reported on the backlash I had received in Europe over the troop request. The ambassador’s tale: Lessons I learned about success and scandal 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

The series features veterans from every major U.S. conflict going back to World War II and up to the recently concluded Afghanistan War, the longest in U.S. history. ‘American Veteran’ Honors the Many Faces of the U.S. Soldier 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

When she was a little girl, watching live reports from Kuwait, Afghanistan and elsewhere, she’d told herself that she wanted to spend the rest of her life walking that fine line between life and death. Quality Control: a short story by Edwidge Danticat

"In Afghanistan," he muses, "voices are surely being raised, lives being cut short." Berlin Biennale 2010: where art imitates real life 2010-06-15T11:57:00Z

He was badly wounded on a mission in Afghanistan, and the movie finds him returning to work for the first time in a while. Cameron Crowe's Reactionary Nostalgia 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

He served two combat deployments to Afghanistan, in 2010 and 2012, and was awarded two bronze stars; he was last ranked as a captain. Leona Rosenblum, Garrett Berntsen 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

And the family’s improbable journey from obscurity in Ireland to eventual prosperity and celebrity in the U.S. offers hope to America’s latest arrivals from Afghanistan, Ukraine and beyond. ‘The First Kennedys’ explores a dynasty’s humble Irish roots 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

The incident, one of the worst of its kind since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, quickly inflamed the severely strained relations between Washington and Kabul. 16 Afghan civilians killed in U.S. spree 2012-03-11T19:19:03Z

At the time the country was a destination for refugees from the war in Afghanistan, among others, many destitute. How an emergency room pediatrician became a global best-selling author 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

We learn that she was wounded in Afghanistan, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and dreams of her first handler, a Marine who was killed there, after which she came home and partnered with Scott. In ‘The Promise,’ Robert Crais wins our hearts with an unusual hero: A dog 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Like Abel, Lisette considers herself “broken,” and she sees ruptures everywhere when she first appears as a correspondent based in Afghanistan. Review | In ‘Missionaries,’ Phil Klay paints a grim picture of Colombia’s drug war 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

The third and fourth films, about women in movements for peace and social justice in Afghanistan and Colombia, are more like news reports, dealing with contemporary, open-ended situations. Television in Review: ?Women, War & Peace? on PBS - Review?Chelsea Settles,? an MTV Reality Show - Review?Reed Between the Lines? on BET - Review 2011-10-10T23:24:44Z

What we have now is a completely wrecked Afghanistan, Iraq, endless fighting in Syria. “Put the fangs back in feminism”: Author Rafia Zakaria on how feminism loses relevance to whiteness 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Taliban behavior is the leading indicator for everyone making hard decisions today about how to proceed in Afghanistan. Perspective | Artists and cultural workers face life under Taliban 2.0 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

The palace said a complaint would be a distraction from Harry's deployment in Afghanistan, where he is serving as a helicopter pilot, and it "would not be prudent to pursue the matter further." Palace won't complain over naked Harry photos 2012-09-28T11:50:16Z

President Trump’s press secretary was speaking to reporters when one asked about his denial of reports that Russian operatives offered bounties to Taliban members who kill American troops in Afghanistan. The political theater of Kayleigh McEnany’s scripted walk-offs 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

"This incident is tragic and shocking and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the United States has for the people of Afghanistan," Obama said in a statement. 16 Afghan civilians killed in U.S. spree 2012-03-11T19:19:03Z

Koenig spoke to many officers who seemed to have no idea what they were really doing in Afghanistan. Serial recap – season two, episode six: five o'clock shadow 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

In the years after the terrorist attacks, the crawls remained, becoming little conveyor belts of doom and dread: Airstrikes resume Wednesday in Afghanistan . The ‘crawl’ fed our need for constant news on 9/11. It never went away. 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Even before the recent events in Afghanistan, the global refugee population had grown to over 80 million. International Rescue Committee CEO: ‘The way refugees are seen is a running commentary on our own values’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

He talks about the advantages of abandoning the historian's god's-eye view, and his own intimate experience of war as a correspondent in Croatia, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Guardian books podcast: Booker longlist and novelistic history 2011-07-29T12:39:32Z

The collection contains artifacts from the prehistoric, classical, Islamic and Buddhist eras, including manuscripts, weapons and sculptures, but it focuses largely on Afghanistan’s past and does not exhibit contemporary paintings or sculpture. Afghanistan’s National Museum Begins Life Under the Taliban 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

They've been to Afghanistan, and a lot of these places, but they know, in the backs of their minds, that, even though they're doing a job, what they're doing is not necessarily justified. Kill List brings the horror home 2011-08-26T23:02:00Z

The school is much better than the ones in Afghanistan. 'My worries are not over': diary of a 16-year-old Afghan refugee 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

For an alternative account of Afghanistan's bloody history – one, as it were, with the Buddhists left in – we can look to a spectacular exhibition which opens at the British Museum next month. The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z

Dropping a bomb with a reality-show name — “the Mother of All Bombs” — on a bunch of caves and tunnels in Afghanistan resulted in what, 39 ISIS fighters dead? Bomber jacket wars: Stagecraft beats statecraft in the Trump White House 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

When I first came from Afghanistan, I remember that moment just before waking up, and for a brief moment I would feel normal. Deborah Rodriguez: 'Kabul Beauty School' author turns to Mazatlan 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

What does this tell us about Afghanistan in this period? The Begram ivories: Rescuing Afghanistan's lost history 2011-02-27T00:05:25Z

That if they could keep the Taliban from taking over in Helmand or southern Afghanistan, that maybe the country could hold together. "Taking sides is not my job": "Retrograde" filmmaker Matthew Heineman on documenting a war's end 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Low Hanging Fruit World premiere of Robin Bradford’s drama about four female veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who find themselves homeless on L.A.’s skid row. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 14-21: 'Low Hanging Fruit' and more 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

America has the recent experiences of Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam to remind it that every war has unintended consequences. Perspective | Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrap of L’Arc de Triomphe reads like a salient point on hollow glory 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

In the book's latter sections, which draw on the writings of surveyors, soldiers and antiquarians of the Raj, these sources tell us little that is new or noteworthy about Bamiyan or Afghanistan. The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:08Z

But since its publication in 2003, at a time when images of Taliban terrorists and Afghanistan's barren landscapes were screened daily to western audiences, the book has sold more than 21m copies. How do you put the Kite Runner on stage? 2013-05-14T17:39:40Z

Audiences travel with Amin as he recalls his childhood in Kabul, Afghanistan during the rise of the Mujahideen, and his family's escape from the country as they fear for their lives in the late 1980s. "Flee": Animation is a powerful medium for documentaries about conflict and refugees 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Donations were received from 13 countries, including the United States, Afghanistan, India and Germany. Afghan teens of 'Buzkashi Boys' stargazing in Hollywood 2013-02-21T04:14:05Z

The war in Afghanistan and the war over the future of the GOP may be coming to an end, but George W. Bush had the privilege of withdrawing from both a long time ago. Perspective | George W. Bush’s wars are now over. He retreated a while ago. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

“I really want to go back to Afghanistan some day,” she said. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

One of his brothers had been killed fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z

They had all served in Afghanistan or Iraq, had all had trouble re-integrating, and were now all divorced. How The Great Game emptied the Pentagon 2011-03-01T21:29:00Z

There is no connection between these early stone sculptures and a group of gold vessels that turned up in the hands of villagers in the area of Fullol in northeastern Afghanistan. Art Review: Murky Exploration of an Iranian Past 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z

As “Rules of Betrayal” begins, Jonathan is working in a clinic in eastern Afghanistan, performing a four-hour facial operation on a maimed girl even as mortars fly. Books of The Times: Doctor?s Doings in Christopher Reich?s ?Rules of Betrayal? 2010-08-01T21:45:00Z

"Where is Tony Blair?" asks a tourist from Afghanistan. What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z

He was impressed by a collection of plays about the war in Afghanistan, “The Great Game: Afghanistan,” commissioned by London’s Tricycle Theater, which toured the Public and Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company. Seeing 2016 election insecurities through the eyes of one family 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

He commands an agency with a staff of 200 people — 55 of them in Afghanistan, where only 20 percent of the country is considered secure. ‘It’s John against the world right now’

Agents from the Department of Homeland Security raided the Long Island City warehouse and emptied a storage locker filled with objects from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Cambodia, federal officials said. ArtsBeat: In Queens Raid, Federal Agents Seize Artifacts They Suspect Were Looted 2014-03-05T20:48:33Z

Equally effective is a moving sequence shot in Kabul, Afghanistan, among the survivors of a 2010 drone attack that killed 23 civilians. Review: ‘National Bird’ Follows Whistle-Blowers in America’s Drone War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Along the way, he encountered Gypsies making sausage on the floor of a Romanian hovel and living in weirdly beautiful shantytowns in Slovakia and tents in Afghanistan. T Magazine: Viva Roma 2011-03-10T23:22:36Z

It was during his second tour, fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, he was mistakenly killed by members of his own unit. 'The Tillman Story': an impressive look at the man and family behind the tragedy 2010-09-02T20:07:00Z

Seeing what is happening now, and my son's friend is actually one of the people that died in Afghanistan ... Musician remixes anti-war hit "19" for Afghanistan 2010-04-01T13:05:00Z

When I first met Yola Monakhov Stockton, she was already a seasoned photojournalist who had worked in a number of conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel, where she was wounded. How to Capture a Bird 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

In the ensuing months, he thought about going to Afghanistan, but instead chose Iraq, because “it’s nice to be there from the beginning of what happens.” James Longley’s “Angels Are Made of Light” Captures the Daily Despair of Ordinary Afghans 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

The second season focused on Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier who was given a dishonourable discharge after walking off his based in Afghanistan and being captured by the Taliban and held for five years. Serial podcast's third season to tackle US criminal justice system 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

A strapping former Marine captain who served in Afghanistan, he stepped to the center of the circle when Mr. Wolfert asked for a volunteer to do a monologue. Using Shakespeare to Ease the Trauma of War 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

We see images here of a church being rebuilt in Indiana, of rebuilding after the 2011 earthquake in Haiti, and of educational work in Afghanistan. Recalling Sept. 11 by Inverting a Museum’s Usual Role 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Large swathes of Afghanistan have been handed back to Afghan security forces, with the last foreign combat troops due to leave by the end of 2014. Taliban "poised to retake Afghanistan" after NATO pullout 2012-02-01T13:22:02Z

One of the first books I read is called “Meena,” about a girl who stood up for women’s rights and education in Afghanistan. Malala Yousafzai: By the Book 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Pitts spent 15 years at CBS News, where he covered political conventions and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Correspondent Byron Pitts joins ABC News from CBS 2013-04-01T14:59:08Z

Just weeks after the attacks, U.S. forces invaded Afghanistan to topple that country's Taliban rulers who had harbored the al Qaeda leaders responsible for the September 11 attacks.              Americans mark 10th anniversary of attacks 2011-09-11T13:00:00Z

The unnamed U.S. staff sergeant is accused of killing the civilians in what witnesses described as a nighttime massacre near a U.S. base in Afghanistan's violent Kandahar province. Afghan massacre suspect upset at 4th tour 2012-03-16T11:35:00Z

Sopko has seen a lot of inexplicable waste in his two years as special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, but his eyes expand with incredulity over this example. ‘It’s John against the world right now’

“Because of everything that’s going on at the moment, especially with Afghanistan and everything? But I want to listen to that and go, ‘Oh, I just feel a bit better now.’ Saint Etienne looks to the past but limits the nostalgia 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

When we think about the American public, you have to ask: When's the last time they might have had a conversation about the war in Afghanistan? "Taking sides is not my job": "Retrograde" filmmaker Matthew Heineman on documenting a war's end 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

The Afghanistan girls’ youth soccer team has also resettled in Portugal. Afghan musicians look to recreate famed school in Portugal 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

The Invictus Games were created three years ago by Britain's Prince Harry, who served two deployments in Afghanistan as an officer in the British army. Wounded Afghan soldiers set for Invictus Games debut 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

It's an amazing statistic that last year more US servicemen killed themselves than were killed in Afghanistan. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z

Having said that, I think it's very important that we start taking Afghans more into consideration when we are talking about Afghanistan, and that we start looking more at the history of the country. Armadillo: the Afghanistan war documentary that shocked Denmark 2010-06-03T20:45:00Z

Nonetheless, unlike much postmodern drama, it retains a central, coherent theme: that western interventions in Afghanistan have almost always produced the opposite effect from that which was intended. In the line of fire: theatre and Afghanistan 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z

Chon, an ex-Navy SEAL, came home after fighting in Afghanistan with the potent seeds and, understandably, some residual jumpiness from the war. Review: Stone back in bold form with `Savages' 2012-07-03T01:46:04Z

Working as a documentary maker in Afghanistan, French said he was often frustrated with seeing only the portrayal of Afghanistan's conflict and strife on screen. Garlanded Afghan film Buzkashi Boys comes home for premiere 2012-10-04T17:37:13Z

In 1971, a team of French archaeologists discovered a sculpture in fragments at a site by the river Oxus in northern Afghanistan. The ghosts of ancient Afghanistan 2011-02-27T21:30:00Z

In homage to the men that were killed, Lone Survivor closely mirrors the true story of Operation Red Wings, a tragic 2005 mission gone wrong in Afghanistan. Lone Survivor: The True Story 2014-01-10T22:33:20Z

In a 2001 article in The New York Times, Amy Waldman, who was then reporting for the paper from Afghanistan, described the crowds of men who gathered around her there whenever she exposed her face. A Novel Set in Afghanistan Challenges the Myth of the Good Occupier 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

The story opens at a funeral for Danny, killed in Afghanistan. 'Nice Things' takes issue with military recruitment 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The barren landscape of Afghanistan has known more invaders than most places on earth. A Different View of the Afghan War Yields the Same Grim Truth 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

It also pushed Islamist extremist groups to export terror and instability, which now worries China, as well as India and Afghanistan. Nosebags 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Polio is still endemic in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria, where frequent mass immunisation campaigns are organised. Polio in two Ukrainian children first occurrence of disease in Europe since 2010 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

The characterization of the United States’ post-9/11 attack on Afghanistan as a “breathtaking early success” was, to use a term later used in the review, “an illusion.” Afghanistan, a Double Bind and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

They are also “lit with resolve” even before Jonathan finds himself inside a cave in Tora Bora, aiming a scalpel at the commander of all Taliban forces in northern Afghanistan. Books of The Times: Doctor?s Doings in Christopher Reich?s ?Rules of Betrayal? 2010-08-01T21:45:00Z

The group is taking part in the nonviolent civil disobedience action to demonstrate against NATO's occupation of Afghanistan and to call for a world without war. Protesters march at Obama campaign HQ 2012-05-14T14:09:00Z

Born in Afghanistan, Rahimi directed film adaptations of his own novels “Earth and Ashes” and “The Patience Stone.” Meet this year’s Cannes jury. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

He presided over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and was involved in such key decisions as the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays in the military. Former defense chief Robert Gates has book deal 2011-07-19T15:11:12Z

Just one example: 40 percent of our 1,700 staff inside Afghanistan — all but a handful Afghans — are women; we have Afghan women in senior positions. International Rescue Committee CEO: ‘The way refugees are seen is a running commentary on our own values’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

They were collecting money for civilians caught up in the US invasion of Afghanistan; hundreds of children had been orphaned by indiscriminate bombing, the men claimed. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

Even the fact that Americans are still dying in Afghanistan seems largely to have been forgotten, along with the war itself. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

She travelled to Afghanistan, and lived in a Tibetan monastery for a while. Charlotte Rampling: ‘I’ve got a very restless character. It’s a beast’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Are you keen to help finance the activities of warlords and insurgents across Afghanistan and Pakistan? The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z

But difficulties in obtaining passports left some musicians stuck for months in Afghanistan. 1,200 Miles From Kabul, a Celebrated Music School Reunites 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

In part, that may have been to do with expectation levels; perhaps Sarah Lund's jumper bobbing around Afghanistan was a leap too far. Sofie Gråbøl: 'There's not going to be a fourth Killing' 2012-11-06T18:30:02Z

And yet if powerful states are good at making war, weaker ones are even more dangerous: Civilians who live under failed states — think Afghanistan or Yemen today — suffer the most. A Historian Explains What Civilization Owes to War 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Elizabeth is serving the Soviet cause in Afghanistan by getting close to the manager of the not-the-Hilton hotel where the C.I.A. will be putting up the mujahedeen visitors. 'The Americans' Recap: Paige the Interrogator 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

I’d been with them in Kabul in ’05 and I decided that if they went back to Afghanistan I wanted to follow that platoon for deployment. Sebastian Junger: The way we treat our vets is insane 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

Mission staff in Afghanistan to coordinate more closely with him. US embassy cables: Indian fears over reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:35Z

He discusses his own emotional limitations, and the way that his time in Afghanistan changed him, with impressive clarity and insight. “The Kill Team”: When U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan became trophy hunters 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

“It’s a very live issue with Afghanistan,” he added. Giant Puppet Ruffles Some Feathers on a Long Walk Through Greece 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Harry said he experienced an "unraveling" after serving on the front lines in Afghanistan, which consequently triggered the trauma of losing his mother, Princess Diana. 6 royal revelations about Prince Harry and more in Netflix docuseries "Heart of Invictus" 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z

He's just back from Afghanistan, where he was snapping soldiers to raise money for the Help the Heroes charity. David Bailey: out of his skulls 2010-08-25T20:30:00Z

Dozens of stories followed from around the world: Prince Harry said in the book that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan. Prince Harry’s Memoir Has Record Breaking Sales 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

When she walks into the Tricycle, where she is performing in The Great Game , a 12-play marathon about Afghanistan hailed by Michael Billington in the Guardian as "mind-blowing", I recognise her at once. 'Grief is like a tsunami' 2010-07-10T23:02:00Z

He repeated the error in May 2014, saying that the residual American force in Afghanistan would be fully withdrawn by the end of 2016. Playing it long 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

“Pakistan is still exporting militant Islamism and terrorism, and will not stop once foreign forces leave” Afghanistan. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

‘The Guns at Last Light: the War in Western Europe, 1944-1945’ Fruitless combat in places like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan can evoke a certain wistfulness for World War II. ‘Last Light’: Spellbinding close to Rick Atkinson WWII trilogy 2013-05-22T23:09:50Z

News reports from Afghanistan must be much more distressing and damaging than a what-if docudrama. TV review: The Taking of Prince Harry 2010-10-21T21:35:00Z

In real life, Private Chen, after months of vicious hazing and racist taunts, killed himself in 2011 at an army outpost in Afghanistan. A Soldier’s Racially Charged Suicide Becomes a Powerful Opera 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

McMahon, a fearless United States Army general sent to Afghanistan to end the war, is based on retired U.S. “War Machine” not a movie for the Trump era, but alas it has Netflix 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

The Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo focused on the activities of a small platoon of US soldiers in a remote and deadly outpost in Afghanistan. VIDEO: A deadly new documentary 2011-03-08T06:15:24Z

Of four Navy SEALs sent on a reconnaissance mission in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan to hunt down a ruthless Taliban commander, only one survives. ‘Lone Survivor’: a true-life tale of a doomed SEALs mission 2014-01-09T00:28:49Z

Working out of Forward Operating Base Mocoron and other remote camps there, the U.S. military is supporting Honduran operations by way of the methods it honed in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z

Chances are the Danish grunts in Carsten Jensen’s novel about the war in Afghanistan are more intimately acquainted with “Call of Duty” than with Rudyard Kipling’s 1895 poem “The Young British Soldier.” A Different View of the Afghan War Yields the Same Grim Truth 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

“Is America going to abandon the women of Afghanistan?” The TV Watch: Christiane Amanpour Shows Candor on ABC?s ?This Week? 2010-08-01T21:44:00Z

Mr. Obama answered questions about Afghanistan and unemployment and also talked about vacationing in Maine with his children and Michelle. The TV Watch: Obama Takes in 'The View' 2010-07-29T19:36:00Z

In the period between 9/11 and the election of President Trump, she lives in Turkey and travels to Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iran and the Mississippi Delta. A Journalist Abroad Grapples With American Power 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

“We have water in Afghanistan, but not like this. Afghanistan’s water is very small. That’s not free.” Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

The paintings in “Grey Area” reflect Berlin’s ever-changing cityscape and, to a certain extent, scenes of damage from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Art Review: ?Julie Mehretu: Grey Area? at the Guggenheim Museum 2010-05-20T21:50:00Z

President , speaking after a phone call with Karzai -- who is said to be furious over the latest deaths -- said the shootings had only increased his determination to get American troops out of Afghanistan as planned. Afghan government team attacked, Taliban fume over massacre 2012-03-13T12:20:08Z

He sidesteps the politics of America's decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, instead focusing on the families of his brothers in arms. May 28 at SIFF: NW vet takes a 'Long Ride Home' 2012-05-25T22:13:05Z

The history of Afghanistan, this exhibition hints, is vast, complex and astounding. The ghosts of ancient Afghanistan 2011-02-27T21:30:00Z

“Despite the 40 years of war in Afghanistan she was always hopeful of the future and hopeful for the future of the new generation in Afghanistan.” Nancy Hatch Dupree 'Grandmother of Afghanistan' dies in Kabul 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

We’ll recede to a situation that we normally see in places like Afghanistan. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z

She left Afghanistan when I left and they just made it to the United States. Deborah Rodriguez: 'Kabul Beauty School' author turns to Mazatlan 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Two military personnel pose for portraits in Afghanistan. Ed Drew's Afghanistan: the first wet-plate conflict photos in 150 years 2013-07-22T16:01:24Z

“People are asking me, ‘Do you think Egypt will be like Afghanistan?’ ” he said. Egypt?s Antiquities Chief Says Sites Are Secure 2011-02-01T23:00:23Z

The most productive rethinking involves Penelope, an Afghanistan vet who works as a medical assistant. Review: The 2017 Class Divide in a New ‘One Day at a Time’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

I wonder, for instance, whether others will take issue with the absence of architecture from, say, Afghanistan or Nepalese Pakistan. When Architects Made Worlds 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

Ray Lewis, a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Marine asks out Betty White on YouTube 2011-07-18T17:30:00Z

Army logs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wikileaks documentary spotlights complexity of Julian Assange 2013-05-24T11:18:48Z

When we talk, though, it’s strange how rarely we mention Afghanistan. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

With the war in Afghanistan approaching the decade mark, there may be no better way in America right now of grasping the horrors of human conflict than to spend some time with these etchings. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z

“I was there long enough that people were used to me. They’d forgotten about the mechanism of recording,” Longley said recently, in the days after the seventeenth anniversary of America’s presence in Afghanistan. James Longley’s “Angels Are Made of Light” Captures the Daily Despair of Ordinary Afghans 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

After obtaining a doctorate in musicology, he returned to Afghanistan and in 2010 founded the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. When the music stops: Afghan ‘happy place’ falls silent 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z

Sometimes he dreams about trying to return to Afghanistan, only to be blocked by the Taliban. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Barker does, vigorously, in her no-holds-barred memoir "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan." 'The Taliban Shuffle' more relevant with bin Laden death 2011-05-06T19:32:00Z

On 10 military bases across the United States, Debi Cornwall photographed the stage-set mock villages where soldiers train for deployment overseas, staffed in part by immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan. Photoville Adds New Venues, Vistas and Vision 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Smith was happy, after 9/11, to send British troops to Afghanistan, but he drew the line at committing himself to war in Iraq, and made common cause with the French. What if John Smith had lived? 2011-04-07T20:00:15Z

Both musicians helped keep Afghan music alive in immigrant communities, when their families were forced to flee Afghanistan during the Soviet takeover. Concert of Afghan traditional music at UW beautiful, mesmerizing 2012-04-25T20:12:05Z

Think, for example, of the lives lost and the billions of dollars wasted trying to install a Western legal system in Afghanistan. Is Globalization Drawing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart? 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Both performances were created with Maurice Decaul, a poet and a veteran of the Afghanistan war, and will be accompanied by community programming and humanities events in conjunction with Columbia University. ArtsBeat: Harlem Stage Unveils Fall Season 2012-07-16T22:29:52Z

And, to mark the 50th anniversary, itv.com is launching a spin-off, Gary's Army Diaries, three webisodes that follow the impact on Gary Windass and his family of his tour of duty in Afghanistan. Coronation Street blasts into the future on its 50th birthday 2010-12-06T07:00:00Z

She brought Paul Rieckhoff, founder of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, to moderate discussions with veterans after the 2007 hit show “Black Watch,” about Scottish soldiers in Iraq. The theater talkback: Why they're popular, and why playwrights aren't always pleased 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

But gradually, everyday life in Afghanistan started feeling unsafe, Mr. Hassanzada said, especially for gay men like him. In Afghanistan, Being an Artist Is a Dangerous Job 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Hot spots like Iraq and Afghanistan move into cold territory. A new era of secrets and spies in Hollywood 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

It led me to study up on modern warfare — what it’s like to be a soldier these days, books by journalists embedded with soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear Approach ‘Othello’ 2013-09-12T16:21:07Z

Developed with advice from elite American special forces, the new game is set during Operation Anaconda, part of the Western war in Afghanistan that followed the Sept. Video Games: Whose Side Are You on? It Might Be the Taliban?s 2010-09-01T22:13:00Z

The spot showed how Anheuser-Busch helped prepare big celebration that included a parade with Clydesdales as a surprise for a soldier returning from Afghanistan. Super Bowl ads: Seinfeld and George, Dylan and Chrysler 2014-02-03T14:07:18Z

"Girl Rising" blends documentary and narrative filmmaking to focus on the impact of education on the lives of nine girls from Cambodia, India, Afghanistan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Peru, Sierra Leone, Nepal and Haiti. U.S. film highlights link between girls' education and poverty 2013-03-08T20:35:19Z

An additional two million former military personnel have entered the VA system since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq began. Fully half of them have already been awarded lifetime disability benefits. The American way of war is a budget-breaker 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Her knee aches from a hard parachute landing in Afghanistan. Meet Kristin Beck, a transgender former Navy SEAL running for Congress 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Harry, the Duke of Sussex, served in the British military, completing two tours in Afghanistan. Prince Harry back at work after son Archie's birth 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

He drew criticism for his role in the military's handling of the friendly fire shooting of Army Ranger Pat Tillman - a former NFL star - in Afghanistan. White House summons US general to explain himself 2010-06-22T12:12:00Z

Klay was awarded the fiction prize for "Redeployment," his book of stories about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Writers Phil Klay and Evan Osnos win top National Book Awards 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The decision to fund anti-Soviet militancy in Afghanistan was a well-informed national security decision made through the cold-war lens, just not a prescient one. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z

No, not those heavily armed aircraft that the United States military uses to patrol the skies over Afghanistan and beyond. Bird? Plane? No, It’s the Wedding Photographer 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Listening to a tape of Kimmy’s dad, the C.I.A.’s Afghanistan guy, Philip learned that his country was using bioweapons in Afghanistan — perhaps the Lassa fever that he helped smuggle out. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 9: Tuan on the Bus 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. O’Brien has spent his tenure trying to free Americans from places like Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and Syria. Hostage Affairs Envoy Takes On an Unlikely Case: ASAP Rocky 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

The Gandhara civilization, in what is now the Peshawar Valley, adjoining Afghanistan and Pakistan, flourished under the rule of the Kushan Buddhists. Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

I would very much like to invite the politicians involved in the decisions of Iraq and Afghanistan to come and see it, but not because I want them to take a scolding. 2010-02-10T16:52:00Z

He slams Congress for gridlock and Obama for adopting an Afghanistan strategy the president himself expected to fail. 50 notable works of nonfiction

The routine revelations of military atrocities in Afghanistan might lead one to question whether ethicists can be any different from priests blessing the troops before they go into battle. Mind Wars by Jonathan D Moreno – review 2012-06-01T21:55:07Z

For Sgt Russell Carter, the first sign that something was wrong came when he was still serving in Afghanistan and the sound of friendly aircraft overhead sent him diving under a truck for cover. ‘Every day is a battle’: portraits of US veterans capture hidden toll of PTSD 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

Protests raged for three days across Afghanistan in April last year after a U.S. pastor burned a Koran in Florida. Afghans protest over reported Koran desecration at U.S. base 2012-02-21T14:29:03Z

Some were part of “A Sweeter Music,” her continuing project created in response to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Carl Stone at the Stone Space 2010-08-04T22:28:00Z

Ironically, his friend Frankie Nash, who joined up at the same time simply to avoid jail, copes far better in Afghanistan – so why is Frankie in the dock again? Combat Kids 2010-11-22T06:45:00Z

Abu Al-Hool is next, an older Egyptian mujahideen who follows campaigns against Soviets and Americans in Afghanistan, Russians in Chechnya and finally the Americans in Iraq. Brian Van Reet’s ‘Spoils’ moves fiction about the Iraq War into new territory 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

During the medieval period the entry of Islam in the subcontinent brought with it a Persian tradition of poetry, painting and music that spread from Afghanistan southwards. Ravi Shankar's music was a world apart from the hippy culture that embraced it 2012-12-12T16:00:00Z

In his blogpost, Horrocks paid tribute to journalists covering a range of global stories including Afghanistan, the deaths of Gaddafi and Osama Bin Laden, and famine in the Horn of Africa. BBC global audience rises by 14m 2012-06-28T11:25:07Z

At the beginning of the second act, Amir and his father are hidden inside a fuel truck, fleeing Afghanistan to neighboring Pakistan. A Chameleon Flies From ‘The Blacklist’ to ‘The Kite Runner’ 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Other U.S. officials called for calm and warned of potential reprisals against Americans in Afghanistan. Shooting raises questions about war's course 2012-03-12T05:00:00Z

That led to appointments as ambassador to Afghanistan, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations. The British ambassador brings her unique style to Washington 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Joe Miller, whose brother-in-law remains missing after his abduction in Afghanistan in 2016, said that he has dealt with Mr. O’Brien and that he appears to genuinely care about the hostages and their families. Hostage Affairs Envoy Takes On an Unlikely Case: ASAP Rocky 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

But when his Marine friends, also back from Afghanistan, join him and Iris for an evening, drunken brawls keep exploding. Fiction: ‘Full Measure’ is a moving portrait of Marines who fought in Afghanistan

In addition to Nigeria, polio persists in a handful of countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Chad, India, Pakistan and Sudan. Ted Turner gives $80M to UN fund for Nigeria work 2010-10-25T20:19:00Z

But even if more tabloid headlines emerge, don’t be surprised if the prince — who’s expected to undertake a new deployment to Afghanistan — turns out to be truly bulletproof. Prince Harry, popular as ever? 2012-08-31T14:13:00Z

Former President Donald Trump later slammed the Biden administration's "surrender" of Afghanistan — and accused that administration of intentionally trying to move on from the withdrawal and its ongoing aftermath. Honor Carvings owner aims to keep memories of 13 fallen Americans alive 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

Luke Mogelson: Well, I was reading and trying to write stories long before I went to Afghanistan or had any experience with, or interest in, war. “Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Watching the tragic end of our withdrawal from Afghanistan, Americans could easily have forgotten that the war began in a spasm of triumphalism. Has the Myth of the ‘Good War’ Done Us Lasting Harm? 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Special Forces sent to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks. 'Jumanji' stays strong, topping '12 Strong,' 'Den of Thieves' with $20 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z

Reproduced here are individual portraits and a group mural which Bush painted, from photographs, of sixty-six physically and/or mentally wounded Armed Forces veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. George W. Bush’s Painted Atonements 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

In Rwanda, as in Afghanistan and indeed in Bosnia, the near impossibility of a foreign power building a state in the face of an armed insurgency did not mean there was nothing to be done. Interventions: : A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan – review 2012-11-15T08:00:04Z

Perhaps he believed that he knew, and that was enough — for him, if not for the country, which would be drained of blood and treasure by catastrophic interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Perspective | ‘Nothing ever ends’: Sorting through Rumsfeld’s knowns and unknowns 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

There are extended sections on diplomacy regarding the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba, Russia, Syria and elsewhere. John Kerry Recounts a Life Full of Incident (and a Few Regrets) in ‘Every Day Is Extra’ 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

The mother of a 24-year-old Marine from Chicago says she's been notified by the military that he was killed in Afghanistan. Chicago Marine killed in Afghanistan 2012-03-02T16:08:00Z

Our age is hardly identical to that one, whatever the resonances between the Afghanistan and Vietnam wars, and whatever America's own bouts of domestic violence. True Grit: Rooster to the rescue 2011-02-06T21:31:00Z

"Mud is a design element in our movie," Ayer said, as a military consultant who had driven tanks recently in Afghanistan wrestled with the vintage vehicle, trying to get it started again. 'Fury' director David Ayer's rugged style was a hit with Brad Pitt 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Slavs and Tatars organized a club night called “Sauer Power,” or “Sour Power,” which featured D.J.s, musicians and performances by artists from Kazakhstan, Armenia, Poland, Ukraine and Afghanistan. These Artists Bring Pickles to the Party 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

Only this wasn’t just any street: It was a busy thoroughfare in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, Being an Artist Is a Dangerous Job 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, the “clamshell” at Bagram Air Field was a favorite venue for him, and he performed there many times. The Military Absolutely Loved Robin Williams 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

On Afghanistan, Mr. Alter writes, the president came “into office knowing little about the situation on the ground” there and “received advice from Bush holdovers that he wasn’t prepared to resist.” Books of The Times: ?The Promise: President Obama, Year One? by Jonathan Alter 2010-05-12T21:05:00Z

Under Rumsfeld's tenure as defense secretary in the George W. Bush administration, the United States invaded Afghanistan to punish the Taliban for harboring al-Qaeda and the 911 attack mastermind Osama bin Laden. Rumsfeld defends his war legacy in Venice Festival film 2013-09-05T19:44:01Z

Paul Rieckhoff, founder and chief executive officer, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

That, in turn, has allowed activities such as aid workers getting into normally inaccessible areas of Afghanistan to vaccinate 4.5 million children against polio since 2007, the charity said. Sir Elton to play for peace day 2012-06-15T09:45:18Z

But it's much more likely to be something harder to trace, maybe some sort of antiquity dug up in Iraq or Afghanistan. Paris art theft: Experts puzzle over motives of 'unusual heist' 2010-05-20T17:53:00Z

In July 2008, he was deployed to Afghanistan for the first time as a forward air controller. Prince Harry leaving army in June to focus on royal duties 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

The five most devastating intrastate or interstate conflicts of the postwar decades — in China, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and between Iran and Iraq — took place during the Cold War. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

Shortly after Time magazine chose Roya Mahboob as one of the 100 most influential people of 2013, the Taliban dropped the first of three “night letters” at her parents’ house in Herat, Afghanistan. “If I teach them, no one can stop them”: Roya Mahboob is fighting to educate the girls of Afghanistan 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

Our policies in Afghanistan and Iraq were similarly obtuse. American Blindness, Abroad and at Home 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

“We have a wonderful mosaic of Afghanistan here,” he said. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z

Pat Tillman, a defensive back on the Arizona Cardinals, enlisted after the September 11th attacks and was killed in a friendly-fire incident in Afghanistan. Football and Politics 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Scott Liddle, Turquoise Mountain’s country director, said of the exhibition, “It will show that Afghanistan is waiting for business, and it’s a good place to do your business.” An Afghan Bazaar Parachutes Into Washington 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

In retrospect, the story of an American who teaches the Soviet Union that invading Afghanistan is both immoral and strategically futile is downright embarrassing. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

What's striking for Dalrymple about the British in Afghanistan is that we are forever donkeys riding into the field of stupidity. William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z

Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to Brody’s family, friends, and neighbors, we realize that perhaps there is a narrative. “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

He was appointed in 2009 to be Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, a daunting task that went poorly from the beginning. Searching for Richard Holbrooke 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Her new book is bravely situated in Afghanistan itself, eroding the myth of the good occupier and of what is termed in the novel “kind power.” A Novel Set in Afghanistan Challenges the Myth of the Good Occupier 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Similar situations can be found across rural Afghanistan, but history shows events in Kapisa are of particular concern. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

A decorated medic and single mother returns home from an extended tour of duty in Afghanistan and struggles to reclaim the affection of her 5-year-old son. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

He was twenty-four when he went to Afghanistan. Colbert Honors StoryCorps’s Military Voices Initiative 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

A funeral for Hartwell, a Navy veteran who served as a gunner's mate in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, was scheduled for Saturday in West Chester, according to a notice published in a local newspaper. "Jackass" co-star was drunk when he died in car crash 2011-06-22T20:31:02Z

Her story about him maps the modern tragedy of Afghanistan, and the Western part in it, and ends with an erotic union with a victim of that history. The female psyche is focus of 2 new Seattle shows 2013-06-06T20:39:46Z

As a SEAL, he served everywhere from Afghanistan to South Korea. Rep. Dan Crenshaw to combine memoir, advice in upcoming book 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a country sandwiched between the Caspian Sea to the north and the Persian Gulf to the south; and flanked by Afghanistan and Pakistan to its east, Iraq and Turkey to its west. Najmieh Batmanglij is the grande dame of Iranian cooking. It’s time you knew her name. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

While in Afghanistan, Mr. Hull designed the headquarters for the country’s National Tourism Agency — a building that landed him a job in the New York offices of legendary modernist architect Marcel Breuer. Noted Seattle architect Robert Hull, 68, dies: ‘amazingly creative’ 2014-04-11T02:06:22Z

Often flawless, they are found in a number of places here in the central Mohawk Valley and — for quantity, quality and accessibility — in few other places, unless one considers Tibet and Afghanistan accessible. Crystal Visions: Just Dig ?Em Up 2011-07-28T22:27:13Z

Three, recent movies that did deal with serious issues, such as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, flopped at the box office. Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z

When he returned from a posting to Afghanistan at 24, things spiralled. Gym, eat, repeat: the shocking rise of muscle dysmorphia 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

The story begins in 1970, when an American diplomat, posted to Afghanistan, accidentally hits a young girl with his car. 10 books to read in December 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

While working in Afghanistan he married an Afghan woman and had a son. Free at last... and they all owe?their lives to Amnesty 2011-04-02T23:11:34Z

The family has been hugely influential and controversial in Afghanistan, where its political connections helped members amass wealth. They Fled Afghanistan for America. Now They Feed the Newest Arrivals. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

“We feel horrible for the situation for women in Afghanistan,” Sofia said. They Fled Afghanistan for America. Now They Feed the Newest Arrivals. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

That was in Afghanistan, in the chaotic days after the United States withdrew last year and the Taliban reasserted control. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Winning and losing aren’t the point of “12 Strong,” and neither are politics, the present, the past, the United States or Afghanistan. Review: ‘12 Strong’ Believes in the Brotherhood of Battle 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Tom Holland stars as a combat medic who suffers psychologically after returning from tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. New this week: ‘Cherry,’ ‘Bloodlands,’ Nick Jonas & Grammys 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

The original picture on an official military website identifies the soldier as a staff sergeant in Afghanistan in 2006. Fiancee: Vet gave show errant photo by 'mistake' 2012-06-07T20:08:13Z

Well, the drone hits in Afghanistan and Iraq, they don’t see children, they don’t see anybody. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z

And the war in Ukraine is a fresh reminder of Afghanistan’s long history of upheaval. They Fled Afghanistan for America. Now They Feed the Newest Arrivals. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

In October 2001, the US invaded Afghanistan and aligned itself with the Northern Alliance in order to oust the Taliban government. America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z

Now, in its eighth season, “Homeland” puts Carrie back in Afghanistan after months of Russian confinement. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Homeland’ and ‘High Maintenance’ 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

But the book lifts off as he returns from Afghanistan and decides it was “time to get serious about sorting out my personal life.” A Memoir From the Young, Gay Mayor of South Bend Running for President 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

If the Taliban took Kabul and controlled Afghanistan, could it link up with the Pakistani Taliban to threaten the command and control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons? 'The Promise': Jonathan Alter's chronicle of Obama's first year in office 2010-06-03T20:07:00Z

A few days later, she was notified that Bergdahl was missing, she later received a box from Bergdahl from Afghanistan with most of his belongings, including a copy of Atlas Shrugged. Serial recap – season two, episode eight: Hindsight, Part 2 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

A 2012 Rolling Stone article by the late reporter Michael Hastings, drawing on emails Bergdahl sent his family, indicated his disgust with the Afghanistan war. Serial podcast returns as Bowe Bergdahl talks US military 'desertion' for first time 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Recently discharged, Jay served in Afghanistan with Amani’s brother and may have been responsible for his death — a possibility that torments him. Review: In ‘Soldier X,’ Rehana Lew Mirza Explores Issues Off the Battlefield 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

US pilots flying bombing missions over Iraq and Afghanistan have already used Modafinil to keep them alert on long flights and Ritalin to enhance attention. Mind Wars by Jonathan D Moreno – review 2012-06-01T21:55:07Z

“She looked beautiful,” said Diana Pike of Phoenix, whose son was killed in Afghanistan in 2013. ‘She wouldn’t miss this for anything’: Melania Trump holds first White House event after 24-day absence 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

AV said it was difficult for him to reckon his upbringing in American Samoa with the trauma he felt after being deployed to Afghanistan multiple times. 'Guilt was the biggest injury': how veterans are using poetry to heal 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Sometimes I am sympathetic, as when the request is spurred by a sudden deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Modern Love: Making a Judgment on Love - Modern Love 2011-10-20T21:23:25Z

He was born into a family of farmers in Khorasan, an arid northeastern province bordering Afghanistan, and as a youngster worked in the fields alongside his father, also chopping wood and hauling melons to market. ‘The Colonel,’ by the Iranian Writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2012-07-01T18:15:33Z

After leaving his base in Afghanistan, Sgt Bergdahl spent five years in captivity until he was freed in exchange for five Taliban prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay. POW saga inspires competing films 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Rushdie may have sincerely believed in the Bush administration's resolve to bring democracy through war to Afghanistan. Mo Yan, Salman Rushdie and censorship 2012-12-13T13:30:04Z

The solemn gathering marked the final homecoming for Lowry, 24, who graduated from Brother Rice in 2006 and died in Afghanistan last week. Fallen Marine 'was meant to serve others' 2012-03-10T02:52:00Z

The Afghan barely noticed the gardens as he agonized over whether to stay in England or return to Afghanistan. What does Afghanistan need? Some major rebranding, says its 32-year-old ambassador. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

All such voices, happy or sad, were officially banned by the Taliban from 1996 to 2001, when they imposed their extremist vision of Islam on Afghanistan, a country with a long and rich musical tradition. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z

Unlike Barack Obama, who continued and expanded our war in Afghanistan, Carter was a peace president who earned his Nobel Peace Prize, and keeps on earning it with worldwide efforts against war, poverty and disease. The Pious Presidency of Jimmy Carter 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

No U.S. soldiers were killed in Saturday night's bombing, which took place hours after the Taliban vowed to keep fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan until all American troops leave the country. 77 Americans wounded in truck bombing 2011-09-11T12:24:00Z

He was a crewman on a flight to Afghanistan in 2008 that returned the body of a British soldier and visited troops there in 2010. Combat is tradition for UK royal 'spare heir' 2012-09-07T12:43:12Z

The first season sees our heroes deployed everywhere from Afghanistan to Indonesia, grappling with a jet hijacking, carrying out covert assassinations, recovering a crashed satellite and generally doing Uncle Sam's dirty work. Your next box set: The Unit 2012-07-05T14:30:01Z

I think that's what drove her to become a dancer and then train as a doctor and go to Afghanistan; her need to really push things and test herself. Karen Woo: a tribute by her brother 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

The market really took off when America, under George W. Bush, wanted support for its occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Return of the hired gun 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

That number is far worse if you add in countries like Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia and others. America’s real Muslim problem is Islamophobia 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

Given that 15.7%, or nearly 500,000, of the 2.77 million soldiers deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan or Operation Iraqi Freedom are said to have PTSD, the odds seem good. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

A touching moment came during the presentation for Dr. Tom Little, an optometrist from New York who was killed by the Taliban last August during a humanitarian mission in Afghanistan. Obama lauds Medal of Freedom recipients 2011-02-16T05:16:04Z

Harry served in the British Army for 10 years, including two stints in Afghanistan, and now works with several charities, including supporting wounded soldiers. Britain's royal couple join mental health group hug on Australia's... 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

I had been living in Afghanistan and was so far away from my family for so long that I started looking a little bit closer. Deborah Rodriguez: 'Kabul Beauty School' author turns to Mazatlan 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rumsfeld’s memoir plays a fast and loose game of dodge ball with what are now “known knowns” and “known unknowns” about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Books of The Times: Rumsfeld?s Defense of Known Decisions 2011-02-03T23:04:15Z

North Africa is a battleground not yet tainted with the reputation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Prince Harry makes war look more Top Gun than Wilfred Owen 2013-01-22T12:00:03Z

The “inevitable” use of FRT in domestic police work will probably broaden to include devices similar to what the military currently uses in Iraq and Afghanistan. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z

National Book Award finalist Phil Klay's "Redeployment," a book of short stories about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rounded out the top five. 'Everything I Never Told You' is Amazon's book of the year 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

Without overstating the comparisons it's not a bad description, because Bluestone 42 is a series that similarly deals in gallows humour as it follows the travails of a British bomb disposal team in Afghanistan. TV highlights 05/03/2013 2013-03-05T07:00:13Z

Lawrence figured in the debate over our own recent tangles with insurgents, in Afghanistan and Iraq. ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ Mended, Returns to Screen and Blu-ray 2012-09-28T18:57:28Z

But the incompetence, parsimony, waste and human cost of the following decade of international efforts in Afghanistan is certainly on a par with the previous episode. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple – review 2013-01-26T14:00:01Z

Eventually the two women ended up going to Afghanistan to work with their informants and try to find Bergdahl. Serial recap – season two, episode five: Meanwhile, in Tampa 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

In 1998 she served as an intern in the press room at the White House, and in 2001, she covered the war in Afghanistan as a freelance reporter for The Boston Globe. The Solar System Winked 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Most recent research on moral injury has come from work with veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. Everyone thinks "Stranger Things" Season 4 is about trauma. It’s not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

In making the film, Mr. Morris said he was fascinated by how Mr. Rumsfeld repeatedly contradicted himself when pressed on questions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ArtsBeat: At Venice Film Festival, Errol Morris Asks, ‘Who Is Donald Rumsfeld?’ 2013-09-04T15:45:52Z

All the stories in the book are based on my experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. This Week in Fiction: Will Mackin on Life In and Out of the Military 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Heartbroken after the death a year earlier of her soldier husband in Afghanistan, Jo Marie Rose is building a new life full of colorful neighbors and interesting guests at the inn. Seattle-area authors plumb past, present, future in novels 2013-08-30T23:49:22Z

A section on gold includes pieces from his fall 1997 “Afghanistan” collection, with its gilt-foiled fabrics and motifs, as well as a video of caddis flies spinning larval sheaths out of gold. Front Row: The Dries Van Noten Exhibition in Paris 2014-03-06T00:30:31Z

Jacobson, who last year photographed a powerful image of a dying Marine in Afghanistan, said she identified with the play's portrayal of war correspondents coming home and feeling disconnected. 4 AP journalists react to 'Time Stands Still' 2010-12-08T08:31:00Z

There are precious objects from countries as different as Ireland and Afghanistan, spanning three belief systems and seven languages. Vikings in London, Glamorous but Just Like Family 2014-03-28T13:35:00Z

Finally, The Great Game: Afghanistan takes the most factual approach to history. In pursuit of US theatre's past perfect 2010-12-22T12:45:04Z

The one point on which I found his meeting minutes really illuminating was his long chapter on Afghanistan. 'The Promise': Jonathan Alter's chronicle of Obama's first year in office 2010-06-03T20:07:00Z

One served in Iraq and another was in Afghanistan, relatives said. Man charged in Merrillville store clerk's death 2012-03-07T22:05:00Z

In a passionate plea, Ms. Gall argues in the final chapter that the United States is turning its back on Afghanistan because American leaders are tired of war and mistakenly view Afghanistan as lost. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

Underlining Biden’s international, alliance-building outlook, the focus is on efforts to reckon responsibly with the power plays of Russia, China and Afghanistan. ‘Year One: A Political Odyssey’ Review: Biden by the Numbers 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Aid, who is an expert on the National Security Agency, will speak about American intelligence operations around the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Spare Times for Jan. 13-19 2012-01-12T22:18:55Z

It was there, meeting soldiers that had been injured in action, that inspired his 1993 play Our Boys, which retains a grim topicality with the many casualties in Afghanistan. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-09-28T23:06:25Z

Shortly after returning to London from Afghanistan, where his misadventures as a special forces soldier left him traumatized and subject to hallucinatory flashbacks, he stumbles into a piece of luck. Movie Review: In ‘Redemption,’ Jason Statham Teams With a Nun 2013-06-28T00:22:12Z

Hashimi, 37, was born in the States to Afghan parents; her husband, 42, was born in Afghanistan. How an emergency room pediatrician became a global best-selling author 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, there are still nearly 90,000 American troops in Afghanistan.  Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

The story is told as though it’s intended mostly for other Afghans or for readers who already understand Afghanistan well enough to need little more than the draw of what happens next. An unusual first novel by a veteran of the U.S. Marines 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

It also spurred creativity, in the form of the outpourings of devotional Buddhist art from the Bamiyan carvings in modern Afghanistan to the painted caves of Dunhuang in north-west China. Brilliant threads 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

It is 2015, and more than a hundred thousand refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are flooding into the city. Two Début Novels Explore How to Be Good 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

“Taking Fire,” at 10, revisits the Army’s 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan, using helmet camera footage. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Shallows’ and ‘Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove’ 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Afzal’s family immigrated to the United States as refugees from war-torn Afghanistan when she was 9 months old. These women are driving a truck of supplies to the U.S.-Mexico border to help migrant families ‘feel human again’ 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

First of all, winning in Afghanistan, however defined, was never going to be easy. Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran – review 2012-07-06T10:00:02Z

But we were bombing Afghanistan at the time and images of war were everywhere. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z

These downbeat dramas were followed by a generation of action movies which fetishised the danger of being a soldier in Afghanistan and Iraq. War games 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

I don’t see drone strikes helping to win people’s hearts and minds in Afghanistan or anywhere else. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z

The painter M. Mahdi Hamed Hassanzada moved back to Afghanistan from neighboring Iran in 2009 to play a part in its creative rebirth. In Afghanistan, Being an Artist Is a Dangerous Job 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Feeling confused about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? David Kilcullen, counterinsurgency expert, speaks at the UW 2010-07-14T22:17:00Z

President Barack Obama recently awarded Meyer the nation's top military honor after he saved 36 lives with repeated charges into Taliban gunfire in an Afghanistan battle. Cuba Gooding Jr. to join NYC Veterans Day Parade 2011-10-31T23:42:31Z

He does like to bring up that time he shadowed a black-ops team in Afghanistan for research, a mission he described as “on the intel-gathering side, low visibility, thin-skinned vehicles.” Inside the World of Brad Thor 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

It spans American history, from the Revolutionary War to the war in Afghanistan, and includes letters and e-mails from members of the U.S. War letters play returning to Los Angeles with Annette Bening 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

"The Kill Team," a 2013 documentary about alleged war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan, airs on "Independent Lens." TV This Week, Jan. 18-24: Ricky Jay, 'Jane the Virgin' and more 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Groberg, this time with Ms. Zarin by his side, returned to the Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan where he had been stationed at the time of the deadly attack. A Soul Mate to Help Heal Wounds From the War 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

I take my last frames and know my work in Afghanistan is done. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z

In November 1982 the Salang Tunnel, a treacherous but vital artery for the Soviets in Afghanistan, became an inferno for troops trapped inside by an explosion. 'The Americans' Recap: Intimacy in the Line of Duty 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Thomas Egan, an Air Force fighter pilot now sitting at a console in a Las Vegas camper steering Unmanned Aerial Vehicles — drones — to their targets in Pakistan, Afghanistan and many other war zones. The Venice-Toronto Express: Three Films at Two Festivals 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Wood knew the symptoms, had seen them before in Afghanistan. Travel: Philip Marsden’s ‘Rising Ground’ and More 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

He laughs again, and admits that the timing of the publication of Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan is not entirely fortuitous. William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z

There may not even be a “who lost Afghanistan” debate in its aftermath. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

High Commissioner for Refugees says Jolie will focus on complex crises that result in mass displacement of people such as Afghanistan and Somalia. Actress Angelina Jolie named UN refugee envoy 2012-04-17T11:16:04Z

The central characters are “a family facing death and destruction in Afghanistan who escape with their lives”. Film based on Christchurch mosque shooting in the works 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Most of the plays are set in Afghanistan, in locations ranging from a Rolls-Royce in a mountain pass to the lion house at Kabul zoo. In the line of fire: theatre and Afghanistan 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z

Though Rumi's exact birthplace is disputed by scholars, most agree he was born in either present-day Afghanistan or Tajikistan to parents of Persian descent. Who would you cast as Persian poet Rumi — Leonardo DiCaprio? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

This allows Amin to tell his own story of fleeing Afghanistan as a teenager for Russia and his subsequent journey to Denmark. "Flee": Animation is a powerful medium for documentaries about conflict and refugees 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

The British Army veteran previously opened up about his tour of duty in Afghanistan in his memoir "Spare." 6 royal revelations about Prince Harry and more in Netflix docuseries "Heart of Invictus" 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z

Army soldiers he was embedded with in Afghanistan during the making of his documentary. Banksy stays away from Oscar documentary shindig 2011-02-24T11:31:04Z

Another well-to-do-Scot, politician, former diplomat, traveller, explorer, he made a brave journey, walking across Afghanistan, being polite and charming and gaining great understanding of the place and its people. TV review: Afghanistan: The Great Game, A Personal View with Rory Stewart; The Queen and I 2012-05-28T21:00:03Z

He is 4 years old in Kabul, Afghanistan, clutching his mother’s hand as they cross the street, approaching a Taliban station. Review: ‘Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity,’ Young New Yorkers Tell Their Stories 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

If the traditional headlines, narratives, and sound bites that have been used to understand the conflict in Afghanistan miss the point, then the film suggests that maybe they are what is truly retrograde. Matthew Heineman’s documentary "Retrograde": A chilling, intimate view of the Afghanistan War's end 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Violence is at its worst in Afghanistan since U.S.-backed Afghan forces toppled the Taliban in 2001. Afghans rock at first music festival in three decades 2011-10-01T18:04:05Z

The Taliban, Afghanistan and the Afghan people were just small objects on the periphery of the collective American rage. “Dude, you get to blow up stuff”: The moral awakening of a Navy man 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

"After decades of displacement and many years of war, we are entering a defining moment for Afghanistan," Jolie added. Jolie to take on new UN refugee role 2011-10-04T16:37:21Z

It is far more if you add in countries like Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia and many others. Perspective | Middle East civilian deaths have soared under Trump. And the media mostly shrug. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Besides winning a National Magazine Award, the essay connected Teague to readers in ways his dramatic reporting from Afghanistan or Sri Lanka never did. When Some Critics Reject the Film That’s About Your Life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

The periodic references to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan suggest that the larger picture is, well, awfully complicated. Review: ‘12 Strong’ Believes in the Brotherhood of Battle 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

It's a cautionary tale of a world without feminism, and after the excesses of the Taliban's regime in Afghanistan seems more prescient than ever. Margaret Atwood 2011-03-08T00:05:16Z

One belongs to Trevor, a veteran injured on a tour of duty in Afghanistan. ‘Buddy’ Review: Who’s a Good Pup? This Pack of Lifesavers 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Frost and Lesh chronicle approximately two years of Harry and Samantha's work to show how his efforts helped him feel a sense of accomplishment and pivot after a harrowing tour in Afghanistan. "Wildcat" directors on shooting challenges: "How can you tell this story if you can't film the cat?" 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

Ten years later Rolly is a sergeant serving in Afghanistan and carrying pictures of his pregnant wife back home. | 'My Generation': 10 Years After the Prom: Friends as Landmarks 2010-09-22T21:57:00Z

One who managed to leave already is Aryana Sayeed, a top female pop star who was also a judge on the TV talent show, “The Voice of Afghanistan.” Under Taliban, thriving Afghan music scene heads to silence 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

They'll study the music of Afghanistan, South Asia and the West. New school tries to revive music in Afghanistan 2010-05-15T18:46:00Z

And that raises an even deeper fear, one that recalls memories of the National Guard at Kent State and atrocities committed by U.S. troops in its wars overseas, in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq. Perspective | The dystopian Lincoln Memorial photo raises a grim question: Will they protect us, or will they shoot us? 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Brad Pitt stars in this black comedy that takes a satirical look at America’s war with Afghanistan. The 75 films we're most excited about in 2016 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

“She called herself an old monument and a lot of Afghans called her the ‘Grandmother of Afghanistan,'” said Wahid Wafa, Executive Director of the Afghanistan Centre. Nancy Hatch Dupree 'Grandmother of Afghanistan' dies in Kabul 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

The absence of Pashtun male voices in a novel about the Afghanistan war is a perplexing decision in a novel that is structured to embrace a multiplicity of voices. The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya – review 2012-06-15T21:55:04Z

Largely mapped out before 2001, the novel was fed by conversations with 200 Afghan refugees in Britain, and travels in Afghanistan. Nadeem Aslam: a life in writing 2013-01-26T10:00:03Z

President Obama recently announced that U.S. forces will withdraw from Afghanistan in 2016, ending a conflict that began as a hunt for Osama bin Laden in the surreal weeks after 9/11. 'Korengal' shows the lasting effects of war on U.S. soldiers 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Lisette is conscious in Afghanistan that war is inseparable from its narrative, that it changes depending on the spin. The Intricacies of Colombia’s War, Stitched Together in a Novel 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

He started to travel to share his skills and worked for the Institute of Traditional Afghan Arts and Architecture, founded by the Turquoise Mountain charity in Afghanistan. Ian Constantinides 2013-05-28T16:45:12Z

Afghanistan has been a complicated place for a long time, and people keep coming from every direction saying, I’m going to straighten this out, I’m going to get it organized over there. Tina Fey on Her 'American-White-Lady Problems' in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Come on, man — didn’t the troops in Afghanistan have it hard enough without having to sit through sketch comedy? ‘Saturday Night Live’ Takes Aim at Al Franken, an ‘S.N.L.’ Alumnus 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

He is hidden in a remote part of Afghanistan, spending a lot of money on things that might be weaponized in an elaborate terrorist scheme. Review: It’s 1996, and Jack Reacher Is Playing Nice With Others 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Afghanistan has a strong musical tradition, influenced by Iranian and Indian classical music. Under Taliban, thriving Afghan music scene heads to silence 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

He crushes it into powder and laces it onto a letter he sends to the late Sheriff Corbin’s son in Afghanistan. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Happy entrails to you 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

This pillar of rose granite is part of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran’s War Memorial in downtown Buffalo, at the edge of Lake Erie. An Art Show, by Veterans Armed With Cameras 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

“Pakistan, not Afghanistan, has been the true enemy,” she pointedly writes. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Washington— insurgents shot down a U.S. 31 U.S. troops killed in helicopter crash 2011-08-06T18:00:00Z

“He’s currently deployed in Afghanistan. I officiated their wedding.” Colbert Honors StoryCorps’s Military Voices Initiative 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

PTSD, my dears — nightmare sweats, Afghanistan flashbacks, shrapnel scars, that sort of thing. Review | The blandly reassuring ‘Jack Ryan’ gets better when there’s less Jack Ryan in it 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

After their earlier collaboration, Ms. Harvey and Mr. Murphy traveled to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington to collect material and inspiration for “The Hollow of the Hand.” P.J. Harvey to Release a Book of Poetry 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

She’s a widow — her husband was killed while serving in Afghanistan — and her son, Edison, is an honor student. ‘Small Great Things’ is the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Set in Afghanistan, this stirring story of an unlikely bond between two young men, Amir and Hassan, has become a modern classic, and an especially important and timely book, nearly two decades after its publication. Perspective | 23 adult books for teens who are ready to read beyond the YA shelf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

All miss their homes and families in Afghanistan, despite the unfamiliar creature comforts they enjoy on the road. Feel-good film follows Afghan cricketing triumph 2010-06-17T12:42:00Z

Until the 1950s, France was the only country allowed to excavate in Afghanistan. Treasures of Afghan History, Art and Culture 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

"I wanted to make Afghanistan a more real place rather than just a remote, war-afflicted nation." How do you put the Kite Runner on stage? 2013-05-14T17:39:40Z

Matthew Heineman’s latest documentary, “Retrograde,” wisely does not attempt to provide a comprehensive account of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. ‘Retrograde’ Review: The U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

He served in Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne's 4th Brigade Combat Team from Ft. U.S. troops posed with body parts 2012-04-18T11:30:00Z

Unbeknown to us, he crossed the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan, with the intent of volunteering for service in the Afghan army under the control of the Taliban government. America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z

He wears a golden ring that his mother gave him two days before he left Afghanistan, to remember his family. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

This week’s episode of Serial comes one day after Bowe Bergdahl’s defense team decided to release documents revealing that the soldier was diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder after he deserted his post in Afghanistan. Serial recap – season two, episode 10: Thorny Politics 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

A verdict which turned out to be almost as much of a hostage to future events as the final shot of Rambo III, set in Afghanistan, which dedicates the movie “to the brave mujahideen fighters”. Taylor Swift v Katy Perry: when even an actual olive branch can't end the froideur 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

The refugees fleeing from wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria to Europe are refugees of the Lifestyle Wars. Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack: ‘He was small and lithe, like a house cat’ 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

The destruction of the buddhas was the crudest possible way of rejecting what they saw as a threateningly "secular" and cosmopolitan version of Afghanistan's history. The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z

As soon as America went to Afghanistan, his plan worked. 2010-01-21T00:03:00Z

The 27-year-old Army captain arrived in Afghanistan for his second tour there on Friday but will not start flying Apache helicopter missions for at least seven more days. Harry completes 1st phase of Afghanistan training 2012-09-09T09:53:09Z

The newest example is “The Outpost,” about a group of soldiers who endured a brutal 12-hour battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2009. Perspective | As statues topple, movies are becoming monuments, and a way to create public memory 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Our continued presence in Afghanistan makes it the longest armed conflict in American history, with no end in sight. "This is not a whitewash": PBS filmmakers on working with documented liars for George W. Bush series 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

If you are in London, do visit the exhibition to see the richness of our cultural heritage, and a different picture from Afghanistan than the headlines of war. Afghanistan's surviving treasures 2011-03-04T09:00:01Z

Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter is a classic Vietnam movie, not least because it reminds you this was a war of conscription, unlike Afghanistan and Iraq. Who is the best Oscar-winning supporting actor of all time? 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

How convenient that a member of the C.I.A.’s Afghanistan team has a house on the market. 'The Americans' Recap: A Most Painful Extraction 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

He was motivated by anger over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bloomberg and Kelly said. New York police arrest bomb plot suspect 2011-11-21T06:39:00Z

“I had to survive and be the voice for other women in Afghanistan,” said Sayeed, now in Istanbul. Under Taliban, thriving Afghan music scene heads to silence 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Afghanistan, Libya, North Korea and Yemen are among the countries that rate a “Do Not Travel” warning, according to the government. Perspective | Where in the world shouldn’t you go? 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

This exhibition solves the mystery, placing a photograph of this carving next to identical ones found in Afghanistan, all with big round breasts, dancing, riding magical beasts, and generally displaying themselves. The ghosts of ancient Afghanistan 2011-02-27T21:30:00Z

What had been planned as a film about an ongoing operation now had to pivot to a film about the end of the longest war for both the United States and Afghanistan. Matthew Heineman’s documentary "Retrograde": A chilling, intimate view of the Afghanistan War's end 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

In adapting the script, Sarma knew she couldn't “cram the entire political context of Afghanistan” into the play. For 'A Thousand Splendid Suns,' a well-timed journey from the page to the stage 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

He said many of the 100 to 200 Americans left behind are dual citizens, some with deep family roots that are complicating their ability to leave Afghanistan. Biden defends departure from ‘forever war’ in Afghanistan 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

He works in a mask and gloves, which might slow most people down but not a former Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Porches, Yards, Driveways, Parking Lots: Where the Neighborhood Is Now 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

A folder labeled as notes from his “C.I.A. kidnapping” in 1973 is full of cryptic jottings recounting the details of his arrest in Afghanistan, at an airport in Kabul, after he fled the United States. New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary?s Papers 2011-06-15T23:40:29Z

The Assistant District Attorney of Manhattan — who joined a counterterrorism operation in Afghanistan after 9/11 and later served three tours in Iraq — is a force to be reckoned with. Greeks Bearing Rifts: Socrates Goes Back on Trial 2011-05-17T11:20:00Z

Luxembourg pretty much lists itself; Afghanistan includes the sad remains of the great Buddhas of Bamiyan, blown up by the Taliban. What Does Unesco Recognition Mean, Exactly? 2012-01-06T17:43:35Z

“Rage against the dying light,” she urged in “Big Bright World”; in “Blood for Poppies” the narrator was a soldier in Afghanistan. Music Review: Shirley Manson Leads Garbage at Webster Hall 2012-05-23T21:58:49Z

The Associated Press — one of the most important sources of news from Afghanistan for news outlets worldwide — said two of its staffers left with their families earlier this week. Journalists face danger on Kabul streets and a new question: How to cover Afghanistan now? 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

That splendid sun keeps watch like a prison guard over the trapped women of Afghanistan, forced by the Taliban to vanish into their burqas and the virtual anonymity of second-class citizenship. Review | In ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns,’ a searing indictment of the Taliban’s treatment of women 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

“The Taliban leaders divided Afghanistan into separate areas of operations,” Ms. Gall notes. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

He was with the quartet on its 1958 State Department-sponsored tour that took the group to 14 countries, including Poland, India, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. Legendary jazz drummer Joe Morello dies at 82 2011-03-13T23:46:04Z

The video goes global: markets crash, travel to the US is suspended, and – though they now believe Bin Laden to be in Pakistan – the Americans launch something called Operation Kickass against Afghanistan. Tere Bin Laden: satire with a sting 2010-07-22T15:25:00Z

In “Healing Wars,” which draws parallels between the American Civil War and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, she incorporates movement, storytelling, music, digital projections — even flying hospital beds above the stage. Liz Lerman’s ‘Healing Wars’ at Arena Stage in Washington 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Harvey has told interviewers she spent more than two years researching the songs, reading about the Gallipoli campaign and delving into testimonies from civilians and soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. ArtsBeat Blog: P.J. Harvey Nabs a Second Mercury Prize 2011-09-06T22:52:07Z

Before Moscow's disastrous decade-long war in Afghanistan, starting with its invasion in 1979, the Soviets exercised enormous influence in the country, giving large amounts of aid and supporting education and the arts. Is it curtains for Afghanistan's fading silver screen? 2012-05-17T06:17:29Z

It is noticeable that Beschloss only modestly touches on 9/11, Afghanistan or Iraq, asserting, I think rightly, that they are too recent to be written about as history. Waging War From the Oval Office 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Flashbacks to one of Miller’s missions in Afghanistan are vivid, affecting and essential to the story. Isabel Allende’s ‘Ripper’: tracking a San Francisco killer 2014-01-22T22:37:43Z

The good war has killed an estimated two thousand civilians through air strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan alone. How “Homeland” Helps Justify the War on Terror 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

After returning from Afghanistan, “you’re in such a different world,” said Haft. With Compass Coffee, two ex-Marines find their way home

In light of the bombings in New York and New Jersey, and the man charged with the attacks whose parents are immigrants from Afghanistan, do you anticipate that Muslims will be treated even more suspiciously? Flying While Muslim: A Civil Rights Advocate on Travel Right Now 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

"I heard these stories about what a harrowing ordeal wintertime is for families in Afghanistan," he says. Khaled Hosseini: 'If I could go back now, I'd take The Kite Runner apart' 2013-06-01T08:29:01Z

Try as it might to keep its distance from opinion and focus on the facts, "Restrepo" can't help leaving you with a sense of despair about the situation in Afghanistan. 'Restrepo' documents Afghan war at human level 2010-07-15T21:07:00Z

Blair stepped down as Prime Minister in June, 2007, less than three months before the first run on a British bank since 1866, leaving behind an overstretched military fighting insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

The setting is Afghanistan in 2005, where we first meet a bunch of Navy SEALs enjoying the camaraderie of downtime between operations. Movie Review: Mark Wahlberg Stars in ‘Lone Survivor’ by Peter Berg 2013-12-24T21:55:24Z

He wrote a famous Rolling Stone feature that cost Gen. Stanley McChrystal his job in Afghanistan. Michael Hastings and Who Journalists Really Work For 2013-06-19T15:26:16Z

He suggested that Islamabad would likely present USG officials with "fabricated" evidence of alleged Indian misbehavior in Afghanistan or the border areas, namely the FATA. US embassy cables: Indian fears over reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:35Z

They took one guy from Vietnam, one guy from Afghanistan, one guy from Cuba, and put them up all into space. ArtsBeat Blog: Darren Aronofsky Gets a Reality Check from the Margaret Mead Film Festival 2011-11-09T13:00:02Z

“Guantánamo” is one of the so-called tribunal plays that brought acclaim to the Tricycle Theater in Britain, currently exploring the quagmire in Afghanistan through fictional and nonfictional means in “The Great Game.” Critic?s Notebook: When News Events Are Retold Onstage 2010-12-08T01:00:00Z

Will there still be an American war in Afghanistan when the older one reaches fighting age in 2030? The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

CLAIM: A CNN article reports that the Taliban banned menstrual hygiene products in Afghanistan, saying it goes against Sharia law. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Sweden's No Burqas Behind Bars, examining the harsh conditions for inmates at a women's prison in Afghanistan, won the best documentary prize. International Emmys for UK shows 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other assignments. 4 AP journalists react to 'Time Stands Still' 2010-12-08T08:31:00Z

Do you think this film will help Americans understand Afghanistan? "Taking sides is not my job": "Retrograde" filmmaker Matthew Heineman on documenting a war's end 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

"A year and a half ago we did sit down and discuss the ramifications of putting a game in Afghanistan, in a contemporary war," he said. Modern games struggle with modern warfare 2010-10-06T00:58:00Z

He wrote, directed and acted in a short film, “Hotline,” about a combat medic home from Afghanistan who is contemplating suicide. What It Takes for This Actor to Wear That ‘Red Speedo’ 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

In “What We Left Unfinished,” five movies started and then abandoned during Afghanistan’s Communist era, between 1978 and 1992, form a dazzling time capsule of the nation’s political and cultural history. ‘What We Left Unfinished’ Review: Spectres of History 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

As a foreign correspondent in the 1980s I traveled widely in war-wrecked Afghanistan, and no one writes more movingly of the brutality and bravery of that beleaguered land. By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Leon Panetta, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, recounts an agency manhunt for the planners of a 2009 suicide bombing at a desolate base in southeastern Afghanistan that killed seven of its employees. Review: In ‘The Spymasters,’ C.I.A. Leaders Recount Tactics of the Post-9/11 Years 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

When we saw images of the war dead from Iraq or Afghanistan, they were surrounded by an architecture that seemed odd, often low-rise buildings made of dun-colored concrete. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

My parents wanted to drive from Uganda to India, which you could still do then as North Africa, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan were stable. Seeing Africa by Road 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Among the nomad gold, the exhibition's portrayal of Afghanistan as a "crossroads" becomes questionable. The ghosts of ancient Afghanistan 2011-02-27T21:30:00Z

Given India's experience in running elections for a billion people, one new area to consider would be training, either in India or Afghanistan, for Afghanistan's central/local election commissions and election officials. US embassy cables: How India can help stabilise Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:33Z

"This time of war began in Afghanistan, and this is where it will end." U.S, Afghans reach long-term pact 2012-05-01T23:22:00Z

The story is about a refugee, called Aman, who moved from Afghanistan, to England. Shadow by Michael Morpurgo - review 2011-08-25T14:00:00Z

Winning the hearts and minds of Afghans is critical to U.S. efforts to defeating the Taliban, but critics say Western forces often fail to grasp Afghanistan's religious and cultural sensitivities. Afghans protest over reported Koran desecration at U.S. base 2012-02-21T14:29:03Z

Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the commander in Afghanistan who led the charge for a surge and for a shift in counterinsurgency strategy in 2009-2010 at the onset of the Obama administration. “War Machine” reveals the mentality behind America’s longest war — and the maddest of them all 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

“I want it to be something that says Afghanistan.” An Afghan Bazaar Parachutes Into Washington 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Life in Ireland or Canada might not quite compare to Afghanistan, but in film-making especially, the gender imbalances are still glaring. Abduction, imprisonment, Taliban: the cartoons keeping it real for kids 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

He kept in touch with the friends he’d made in Afghanistan, and some of them remained involved with Al Qaeda. Read “Guantánamo Diary” 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Unlike movies about Iraq and Afghanistan, such as “American Sniper” and “Lone Survivor,” “Fallujah” is scoured of jingoism and lays bare the suffering on both sides. Blood, sand and tears: A foreign correspondent's view of the opera 'Fallujah' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

If the trend holds, there soon will be a shelf of books explaining why the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan was a misadventure or worse. 'The Dogs Are Eating Them Now' an unflinching account of Afghanistan 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

But it was maddening to see these two events linked so glibly, as if the still unfolding tragedy of Afghanistan was already understood and fully processed. Perspective | What’s happening in Afghanistan can’t be reduced to images with historic parallels. When will we learn to see things in real time? 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

The entire company, led by Ted Johnson, danced to Lady Gaga’s “Telephone,” closely following a projection of a viral 2010 “Telephone” video by Aaron Melcher danced by American soldiers in Afghanistan. Liz Lerman’s ‘Healing Wars’ at Arena Stage in Washington 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Since 9/11, there’s been an outpouring of books about Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, the September 11th attacks and the war in Afghanistan. ArtsBeat: A Survey of Books About Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda 2011-05-02T07:50:50Z

Their departure from Afghanistan was staggered in five airlifts to Doha over six weeks in October and November. Afghan musicians look to recreate famed school in Portugal 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

The tensions in this corner of Greece come as Europe wrestles once again with the inflammatory issue of migration amid the escalating crisis in Afghanistan. Giant Puppet Ruffles Some Feathers on a Long Walk Through Greece 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

They were commissioned as Army officers and served together in Afghanistan in 2010. Roxanne Bras, Stephen Petraeus 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

Ambassador and military commander in Afghanistan were furious not that our soldiers struck jokey poses with severed limbs, but that the Los Angeles Times dared to publish them last month. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

Jolie wanted Petraeus' perspective on cultural trends in Afghanistan for her work with Afghan refugees, an official close to the former U.S. commander in Afghanistan said, speaking anonymously to discuss the private meeting. Obama caucuses in Oval Office with Pitt, Jolie 2012-01-12T12:55:09Z

Hosseini’s tale gave readers a rare inside perspective on Afghanistan and the intricacies of life there, but it also has, as Arison pointed out, universal themes of immigration, power, redemption, and father and son relationships. A Chameleon Flies From ‘The Blacklist’ to ‘The Kite Runner’ 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

In the beginning, all I wanted was to either be around people who had been to Afghanistan, or followed the war, or talked about the war. Deborah Rodriguez: 'Kabul Beauty School' author turns to Mazatlan 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

In one respect, Huntington has prevailed: The scholar’s admiration of the military has become ubiquitous, despite, or perhaps in part because of, the inconclusive slogs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Should We Worry About Trump’s Fawning Admiration of the Military? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Dear Amy: For four generations, my family has served as pilots in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Perspective | Ask Amy: Veterans respond to tough homecomings 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

That new doctrine became the infantry officer’s bible for fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Books of The Times: ‘The Tender Soldier’ Examines the U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy 2013-08-27T20:58:37Z

Starr reported on a wide range of topics, including about U.S. missile tests, military accidents, and U.S. troop deployments in Afghanistan and Syria. The Barbara Starr question: Why did Trump’s Justice Department want CNN Pentagon reporter’s emails? 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

How do you think the film has made a topic not mentioned in Afghanistan more prominent in our culture? "Flee" director on protecting a refugee's identity through animation: "He is always having to hide" 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

If All the Sky Were Paper Laura Dern, Gary Cole, Ken Howard and others read the letters of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen and their loved ones from the American Revolution to the Afghanistan war. L.A. theater openings, June 8-15: 'The Last Confession' and more 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Mohib’s computer skills landed him at the American University of Afghanistan, where he worked on computer and video conferences with other universities. What does Afghanistan need? Some major rebranding, says its 32-year-old ambassador. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Air Force personnel stationed at Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield, including the “Reapers” force tasked with capturing or killing Taliban targets. Summer TV: Post critic Hank Stuever’s guide to what’s on

Last September, army reservist corporal Harry Killick, who had served in Afghanistan, was jailed after admitting to stealing a rifle and ammunition from his barracks in Brighton. 'You don't ever get over it': meet the British soldiers living with post-traumatic stress disorder 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

Afghanistan and Pakistan are fascinating, inspiring countries, full of wonderful people. Report: Inspirational book 'Three Cups of Tea' inaccurate 2011-04-16T00:40:00Z

Mr. Thor did not travel to the Nevada desert, dad-joking that his wife let him go to Afghanistan “but Burning Man might be a bridge too far.” Inside the World of Brad Thor 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Afghanistan is the proof that war triumphs over truth. Prince Harry makes war look more Top Gun than Wilfred Owen 2013-01-22T12:00:03Z

The Guardian's Jonathan Steele joins the barrister Sadakat Kadri to examine the tragedy of Afghanistan and the myths which surround sharia law. Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: Jonathan Steele, Sadakat Kadri and Carlos Gamerro 2012-08-25T11:09:52Z

Crammed with performers who apparently didn’t read the script before signing on, the movie offends your intelligence on every level, starting with its use of Afghanistan as a Western playground. Review: In ‘Rock the Kasbah,’ Who Cares About War When There’s Money to Be Made? 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

The groom, 38, was until March 1 a political affairs officer for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Kabul, Afghanistan. Delaney Simon, Graeme Smith 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

If I was a politician, I’d focus on trying to stop the conflicts in Syria and Afghanistan. 'My worries are not over': diary of a 16-year-old Afghan refugee 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Jaber said it was extremely difficult to find professional actresses in ultra-conservative Afghanistan and obtain rehearsal space free from the watchful eye of the pervasive and disapproving Taliban insurgents. Shakespeare gives hope to Afghanistan arts revival 2012-06-06T12:22:29Z

Webb, a soldier, said he would miss next year's festival, as he expects to be posted with the British army to Afghanistan. Fathers of folk-rock mark 45 years with family bash 2012-08-15T12:37:54Z

An hour before the call, scrolling through Instagram posts, I found out that a Marine I had served with in Afghanistan had taken his own life nine months earlier. Finding solace through helping a TV show understand war 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

Observations: After arriving in Afghanistan, Bergdahl would sleep clutching a tomahawk to his chest, which sounds uncomfortable. Serial recap – season two, episode six: five o'clock shadow 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Our parents understood that but they did get anxious every time they heard something had happened in Afghanistan. Karen Woo: a tribute by her brother 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

"Kids like Kade have grown up in the shadows of 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a red, yellow, green terrorist alert color code system," Friedlander said. Titanic a magnet for kids, fine line for educators 2012-03-21T16:27:11Z

Much of what the rest of the world knows about Afghanistan’s cultural legacy was learned after the end of British influence in 1919. Treasures of Afghan History, Art and Culture 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

Nationalists have opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they opposed Trident. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z

It is difficult for us to get a screening in Afghanistan right now, but hopefully at some point. "Flee" director on protecting a refugee's identity through animation: "He is always having to hide" 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Where a good part of “Restropo” was filmed in the heat of battle, “Korengal” is a collective meditation on military life by many of the same men, looking back on their time in Afghanistan. In ‘Korengal,’ U.S. Soldiers Recall Their Time in Afghanistan 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

"It's what the Afghans want to tell the world," said co-director Timothy Albone, who spent three years in Afghanistan as a reporter for the Times newspaper. Feel-good film follows Afghan cricketing triumph 2010-06-17T12:42:00Z

In Afghanistan, a soldier’s life is very different. A soldier’s best friend 2013-05-08T19:34:00Z

Unlike the victims of war I saw in Afghanistan," said Duley, "these people are not in their home country. Afghanistan survivor turns lens on horrific injuries in Syrian conflict 2013-04-13T17:47:00Z

As the country continues to mourn the deaths of 30 soldiers killed Aug. 6 when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan, Gov. Quinn signs Let Them Rest in Peace Act 2011-08-14T23:19:00Z

Bush agreed, thinking back to her days advocating for women in Afghanistan. Michelle Obama and Laura Bush promote the power of first ladies

His tour to Afghanistan in 2007-2008 was cut short after 10 weeks when a media blackout was breached. UK military: No plan to end Harry's Afghan tour 2012-09-15T15:34:14Z

A cleaning woman who turns her cellphone off while she works nervously waits while it powers up again, afraid to find a message about her son who’s fighting in Afghanistan. ‘The Testament of Mary,’ by Colm Toibin, and More 2012-11-28T21:05:09Z

Surface transportation funding over six years would be $476 billion and would be paid for through existing fees and savings from winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What to expect in Obama's budget for fiscal 2013 2012-02-13T12:45:14Z

Uzbekistan, a mainly Muslim nation of almost 28 million people, is strategically placed along a key transportation route supplying U.S.-led coalition troops engaged in combating insurgents in neighboring Afghanistan. Uzbek first daughter looks for love, gets none 2011-09-15T12:46:08Z

They wanted the label “made in Afghanistan,” sewn into every piece they sold, to mean something new both within the country and outside. ‘Made in Afghanistan’ Once Symbolized Hope. Now It’s Fear. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

But it influenced me deeply, because I thought: I’d like to take a long trip, leaving London, going to Paris, taking the Orient Express, going through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan – which became The Great Railway Bazaar. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z

He was also the first student from Afghanistan to be admitted to a U.S. university music program. When the music stops: Afghan ‘happy place’ falls silent 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nashenas’s own life and artistry speak to the Afghanistan he left behind, and one that could have been. An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

Abu Jandal once worked for , serving as a bodyguard for Mr. bin Laden and running guest houses in Afghanistan for new recruits. Film: ?The Oath, a Documentary by Laura Poitras, Looks at Foreign Policy 2010-05-08T02:48:00Z

Often perceived as conservative and requiring women to be covered from head to toe, the rules range from strict interpretations of modesty in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan to more moderate versions in Malaysia and Indonesia. Indonesian designers defy stereotypes of Muslim fashion 2013-10-24T04:25:56Z

"Whether you're being manipulated by the Sudanese regime or coalition forces in Afghanistan, you are always an instrument of war," she says. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z

Ms Jolie made the comments while touring a refugee camp in Afghanistan on behalf of the UN agency. VIDEO: Jolie on plight of Libyan refugees 2011-03-02T22:56:32Z

The Western pullout and the swift Taliban takeover of Afghanistan have left thousands of people, including journalists, fearing retribution under the new regime. Pulitzer Board grants special citation to Afghan journalists 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Seinfeld told reporters the topic was particularly relevant today as the United States grapples with its roles in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jerry Seinfeld's empires satire goes to Broadway 2010-10-12T19:43:00Z

This year we have interspersed 12 short plays about Afghanistan with a number of verbatim interviews, ranging from the head of the British army to a Taliban commander. In the line of fire: theatre and Afghanistan 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z

Hannah Verdier As the war in Afghanistan continues, and President Obama makes assurances about phased withdrawal of US troops, the pressure to effect change within a "truncated timeline" is very much on. TV highlights 30/08/12 2012-08-29T19:00:25Z

She took on the personas of soldiers and observers in the songs, floating above battlefields as she spoke of British conflicts from the disastrous attack on Gallipoli in 1915 to more recent actions in Afghanistan. ArtsBeat Blog: P.J. Harvey Nabs a Second Mercury Prize 2011-09-06T22:52:07Z

Under Every Leaf: How Britain Played The Greater Game From Afghanistan to Africaby William Beaver William Beaver tells its story well, from documentary sources that have been largely overlooked in the past. Under Every Leaf by William Beaver - review 2012-05-18T08:00:03Z

The subtitle tells the story: "Promoting Peace Through Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan." What our writers love this week 2010-10-20T23:22:00Z

The lessons derived may even be applicable in Afghanistan, Iraq and other places, current and future, where Washington outsources warfare to private contractors. Books of The Times: Held Captive, yet Clinging to Hope 2010-09-20T22:16:00Z

“I do 200 shows a year. I was over in Afghanistan last month, which was terrific. Life for me is good right now.” Jay Leno Misses 'The Tonight Show' but Loves Jimmy Fallon 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Of Afghanistan, Gordon writes, we “turned so many corners that we seemed to be back in the same place we started.” Where Does American Foreign Policy Go From Here? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

News programs portrayed the hooded models as a tasteless poke at Burqa-encased women in Afghanistan and victims of domestic violence. Playful and Sleek, With Subversive Twists 2010-08-02T14:35:00Z

This history of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is replete with air battles. On the Ground in Afghanistan and Iraq 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

This picture explains why, this Christmas, the model-maker Airfix was selling not just toy Spitfires but kits to make an up-to-date range of Afghanistan war British hardware and troops. Prince Harry makes war look more Top Gun than Wilfred Owen 2013-01-22T12:00:03Z

It must have a realistic amount of resources to handle the influx of veterans it has been receiving and treating since the end of the Iraq War and drawdown of troops in Afghanistan. A sampling of editorials from around New York 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Arthur knows differently: Afghanistan is terrifying but the challenges of returning are frightening too. Pink Mist by Owen Sheers – review 2013-05-26T10:00:01Z

In the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Arab Spring, the notion of a secular dictatorship that is loyal to the United States seems almost quaint. Adam Rayner Stars in ‘Tyrant,’ a Thriller on FX 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

He describes one man, imprisoned at Guantánamo, who was a cook’s assistant for Taliban forces in Afghanistan. Books of The Times: ?Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb? 2010-08-05T22:00:00Z

“I believe it’s higher than Afghanistan,” Trump said. Fear and gloating in Cincinnati 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Exit 12 Dance Company’s “Homecoming,” about the spouses of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, was manipulatively sentimental and obvious in its effects. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival at Battery Park 2012-08-17T23:55:17Z

He was born to Afghan refugees in a camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and migrated to the United States as a child. The Echoes and Echoes and Echoes of War 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

The soldiers work for the border patrol, and in due course they are alerted to the arrival of a group of migrants from Afghanistan. ‘Fear’ Review: Stranger in a Strange Land 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

The warring factions in Afghanistan may be “busy destroying,” said Ms. Khademi, the performance artist, “but we are very peacefully writing this history.” In Afghanistan, Being an Artist Is a Dangerous Job 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Ms. Jalali shared another photo, of her as a teenager in the United States in the 1990s, wearing a blue-and-gold Afghan kuchi, “a dress that the nomads of Afghanistan wore,” she said. #DoNotTouchMyClothes: Afghan Women Protest Taliban Restrictions on Rights 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Eventually they invited him to a meeting at a local house to discuss the war in Afghanistan more freely. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

For months on end last fall, Zohra was trapped in Kabul, unable to get a passport to leave Afghanistan. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

The night before that gathering, staff members of Mr. Holbrooke — the Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan — convened to remember their boss. ‘The Diplomat,’ a Son’s Documentary on Richard C. Holbrooke 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

The lawsuit claims Mortenson lied about how he began building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan and fabricated other events in the books "Three Cups of Tea" and "Stones Into Schools." Mortenson asks judge to toss 'Three Cups' lawsuit 2012-02-09T22:54:07Z

We wanted to cross into Afghanistan but were told it was dangerous because of the Taliban. Is "Jirga" a white savior movie about Afghanistan? "We have a lot to feel guilty about" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

“Afghanistan is one of the richest countries in archaeology and history in the world,” he said. Relics seized from smugglers are returning to Afghanistan 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Gary Vikan, former director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, said that given the violence in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and northern Africa, he believed museums should — and will — become more conservative about such returns. Islamic State Destruction Renews Debate Over Repatriation of Antiquities 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

Fluent in Farsi and other languages spoken in Iraq and Afghanistan, she was, in 2017, a decorated Air Force veteran working as a contractor for the National Security Agency. Perspective | Reality Winner was the FBI’s ‘head on a pike’ for Trump. It’s time to set her free. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

Despite the box-office failures of so many movies about Iraq and Afghanistan, Hetherington is convinced that there's a huge appetite for a film that brings about understanding. Documentary on Afghan war attempts to show what soldiers experience 2010-07-07T20:35:00Z

The casting of this war movie, set in Afghanistan in 2009, has novelty appeal. ‘The Outpost’ Review: At War, in a Worst-Case Scenario 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

He gives her two weeks to recant her public statements denouncing the Soviet war in Afghanistan -- or else! 'The Americans' recap: KGB spy mission takes tragic turn 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Martinez deployed to Afghanistan a second time on February 28 after a brief visit at home with family, his stepfather said. Marine from Elgin dies in Afghanistan 2012-04-07T04:29:00Z

From then on she's one of the guys, accompanying the Seals to Afghanistan on their brilliantly staged mission and finally identifying the corpse in its body bag. Zero Dark Thirty – review 2013-01-27T00:06:09Z

“Our Man” is divided into three parts — Vietnam, Bosnia and Afghanistan — to mark the “three fiendish wars” that defined Holbrooke’s career. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Richard Holbrooke 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

The country is, of course, Afghanistan, and this is the recurrent theme of the Tricycle theatre's The Great Game season, first performed last year and now in revival prior to an American tour. In the line of fire: theatre and Afghanistan 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z

Plenty of aliens get their squishy butts kicked, but there may not be any combat or strategy lessons to be applied in Iraq or Afghanistan. Battle: Los Angeles ? review 2011-03-10T22:00:00Z

But the longitudes of the world I had never traveled across, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan, and west of Bangkok, I would experience tucked inside the fuselage of a Lufthansa jet. I Crossed the World 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

The Afghanistan on show at the London museum sits at the center of trade routes — not the periphery of the civilized world. Lost and Found: Afghan Treasures Reunite at the British Museum 2011-03-27T06:35:00Z

Harry first served in Afghanistan as a forward air controller, during 2007-08, coordinating air strikes on Taliban positions before his presence was revealed by foreign media and he was flown home. The barbecue king: British royals praise Philip’s deft touch 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

This amalgam of support proved to be a lethal combination for the growing insurgency in Afghanistan that confounded United States policy makers. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

According to Koenig, Bergdahl talked to Boal about a lot of diverse and divergent feelings about the war, the sum of which was that whatever they were doing in Afghanistan wasn’t working. Serial recap – season two, episode six: five o'clock shadow 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

It must be said that this kind of briskly utilitarian attitude towards Afghanistan's pre-Islamic heritage is nothing new. The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z

After training at Britain’s top military academy in Sandhurst, he became an officer and undertook two tours of Afghanistan. Remembering 'Mr Wales', soldiers look forward to Harry and Meghan's... 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Most recently, 100 refugees from Afghanistan have settled in the area. Where Breaking the Ramadan Fast Includes Caribou 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Rachel’s cassette tapes are intended for her high school boyfriend, who is awaiting deployment to Afghanistan. It’s a Book. It’s a Podcast. It’s a Three-Act Play, in Your Ears. 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

The other hard-hitting account that takes place in Afghanistan, though decades later, “My Sunny Maad,” received a surprise nomination from the embattled Golden Globes. Animation That’s More Than Kids’ Stuff 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

The concept of the film shifted when the Biden administration announced plans to pull out of Afghanistan. "Taking sides is not my job": "Retrograde" filmmaker Matthew Heineman on documenting a war's end 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

He was embedded with the U.S. military in southern Afghanistan in August 2009 when the vehicle he was in was hit by a roadside bomb. AP wins 2 Pulitzers for photos of pandemic pain, US unrest 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Salon spoke to Polsky over the phone about drones, the current election, Obama’s Afghanistan strategy and why American warfare is different from everybody else’s. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z

The book opens with the Taliban’s November 2001 defeat in Afghanistan, a striking blow to a group that had initially seized Kabul in 1996 with aid from the ISI and other Pakistan government agencies. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

Besides being the author of novels and short stories, Sarna is also an easygoing brief essayist, often linking his bookish “second thoughts” to his official sojourns in Britain, Russia and Afghanistan. A treasure trove for book lovers: Michael Dirda picks books about books 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

A few months later, I found myself in Afghanistan. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z

It's something that chimes with his personal experience in other countries such as Afghanistan. 'Life goes on' in North Korea 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

The reason for the crowd’s enthusiasm: Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against invading Afghanistan in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Missing in Brooks County’ and ‘Sisters With Transistors’ 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

British soldier killed in Afghanistan named US army told to shape up – by duelling with pugil sticks All today's stories Last 24 hours 1. Tampon-makers can't mention the V-word. Period. | Richard Adams 2010-03-17T18:39:00Z

There were some issues on which the two states differed, such as Iran and Burma, and several areas of tension – including US policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan – but, on the whole, the news was good. WikiLeaks cables show warming relationship between India and US 2010-12-16T21:30:23Z

Khazir previously worked in PR and internet search engine optimisation when he noticed how videos of jihadis in Iraq and Afghanistan received large numbers of hits. Film challenges extremism by and against British Muslims 2012-12-25T13:00:01Z

It's set in Afghanistan in 2006 and tells the stories of doctors and nurses working with NATO's security force. 10 promising new summer TV shows 2011-06-15T19:42:10Z

“Mountains” spans several generations and moves back and forth between Afghanistan and the West. Books of The Times: ‘And the Mountains Echoed,’ by Khaled Hosseini 2013-05-20T22:26:11Z

Not only is Bob more in touch with intellectual life than I am, but he also knows everything that’s going on in Afghanistan and Haiti. Robert Silvers?s Long Reign at The New York Review of Books 2012-03-17T00:18:55Z

Walt persuasively contends that Washington’s bungled interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya helped propel Trump, who has consistently derided foreign policy experts, to the presidency. A Foreign Policy Realist Challenges America’s Zeal for Intervention 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Even before being brought to Guantánamo, many were held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, or were interrogated and tortured in offsite CIA detention facilities. My heartbreaking journey to Gitmo: A widow, a military prison & the enigma of human compassion 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

"I perceive the world through the medium of human voices," Svetlana Alexievich declares near the end of "Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War," explaining both her method and her point of view. Svetlana Alexievich's 'Zinky Boys' gives voice to the voiceless 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

We’re now almost 17 years into the war of Afghanistan, the longest in American history. Review: ‘12 Strong’ Believes in the Brotherhood of Battle 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

But it all came together for me when I got this letter from a guy in Afghanistan and at the end of it he wrote, `I need a job, brother. Sammy Hagar ready to hatch new Chickenfoot album 2011-09-24T15:36:15Z

I had to play catch-up on the 1990s while history returned and while boys from school who’d joined the army went to Afghanistan and then Iraq. How to screw up in Arabic 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z

This summer, Bahar Jalali watched anxiously as the United States withdrew its military from Afghanistan and the Taliban began to reassert control over the country. #DoNotTouchMyClothes: Afghan Women Protest Taliban Restrictions on Rights 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

At the Royal Court, Laura Wade's Posh pulls our attention towards the Tories' youthful hi-jinks at Oxford's Bullingdon Club, while DC Moore's The Empire rakes over the continuing British military presence in Afghanistan. Can political theatre change the world? 2010-04-13T10:47:00Z

He covered conflicts in Central America in the 1980s and the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A Book on Fidel Castro From Jon Lee Anderson 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

And now our endless time in Afghanistan,” he said. What it takes to be in Vogue 2012-06-11T14:58:00Z

Greece was particularly hard-hit by the migration crisis of 2015-2016, which saw more than 1 million refugees stream through the country — mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Giant Puppet Ruffles Some Feathers on a Long Walk Through Greece 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

There are about 90,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a number that is to fall to about 68,000 this year. Shooting raises questions about war's course 2012-03-12T05:00:00Z

It is the only life he knows — this is his third nine-month deployment to Afghanistan. A soldier’s best friend 2013-05-08T19:34:00Z

Then during downtime between deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Butler hatched an idea to eliminate the headaches of certain games and maximize potential fun, thus creating Rollors. Air Force veteran Matt Butler shares how his military career led to an award-winning game design 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

“It means almost certainly American lives are at stake,” Carrie emphasizes, “either here or in Afghanistan or back at home.” 'Homeland' recap: Prisoner exchange part of far bigger plot 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

When we opened in April last year, 153 British troops had been killed in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion; since then, the British death toll has more than doubled. In the line of fire: theatre and Afghanistan 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z

Catalysed by her loathing for war in Iraq and Afghanistan, she studied redacted, declassified documents from the US's National Security Archive and made silkscreen paintings of the most striking. Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side 2012-06-04T17:36:01Z

First of all, it’s based on “The Taliban Shuffle,” a memoir by journalist Kim Barker about her experiences as an ill-prepared war correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Tina Fey reinvents herself in the rich Afghan War dramedy “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Two other documentaries would make an apt if harrowing pairing: “The Tillman Story,” about the death of Pat Tillman, the National Football League star turned Army Ranger, and “Restrepo,” about an Army outpost in Afghanistan. 2010-01-29T08:31:00Z

She said Lowry joined the Marines with a close friend who is also stationed in Afghanistan. “He is going to be missed,” McElroy said. Chicago Marine killed in Afghanistan 2012-03-02T16:40:00Z

You were arrested just inside Pakistan, on your return from Afghanistan. Ahmed Errachidi: 'We shared one thing in Guantánamo Bay – pain' 2013-03-30T20:00:01Z

At the time, Davis was serving in a medevac unit that flew Black Hawk helicopters in Afghanistan to rescue wounded soldiers, sometimes taking enemy fire in the process. For these wounded warriors, a chef-cooked meal is part of the healing process 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

British Prime Minister David Cameron discusses topics that include violence in Afghanistan and the upcoming summer Olympics; protecting teens in high school foreign exchange student programs; actress Amy Poehler talks about Upright Citizens Brigade. Wednesday TV Picks: The new 'Restaurant Stakeout' on Food 2012-03-13T20:35:04Z

We make an explicit effort to try to avoid the innocents – in Afghanistan, we went out of our way to try to warn people. Game of Thrones: how to win – by the British army and other experts 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

After eras in which Turkey, China and Southeast Asia played dominant roles in the market, recent data indicate a 93 percent of the world's poppy supply is grown in Afghanistan. 'Opium': War and economic upheaval drive the drug trade 2010-05-19T21:58:00Z

In the 2000s, same advice — except to switch the story to Afghanistan. Northwest author Karl Marlantes took three decades to climb his own personal 'Matterhorn' 2010-03-19T21:21:00Z

Prints of a Greek actor portraying Hamlet in the nineteen-seventies show the same physical vocabulary as people in real scenes Majoli captured in Afghanistan, Brazil, Italy, France, Japan. Alex Majoli’s “SKĒNĒ”: The World as a Photojournalist’s Stage 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Afghanistan and Kuwait, which reportedly was not alerted before the suspect arrived. Family of suspect in Afghan killings 'shocked' 2012-03-16T05:39:00Z

With the ailing dinosaur Brezhnev mired in the Afghanistan war and Reagan freshly in the White House reversing 70s detente, the nukes stockpiled alarmingly. Six reasons to watch The Americans 2013-06-01T23:05:42Z

Over the last half-century, whenever and wherever the U.S. military “deploys,” often to underdeveloped towns and villages in places like Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq, it arrives very much in the spirit of those sci-fi aliens. We are the empire: Military interventions, “Star Wars” and how we’re the real aliens 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

An Army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, Rowe was a producer of "Loose Change," a 2006 film that challenged the official explanation of the attacks on Sept. 9/11 conspiracy film producer in NY drug arrest 2011-01-31T16:26:11Z

Reporting from Afghanistan in the early 2000s, the journalist Scott Carrier was assisted by a young translator named Najibullah Niazi, who had learned English by watching American movies over and over. 11 Perfect Podcasts for the Fourth of July 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

A headline in a local paper recently called him “Top Adman,” which is less glamorous than “the Rupert Murdoch of Afghanistan,” but perhaps more accurate. T Magazine: Expatriot Games 2011-03-11T17:02:22Z

While the film doesn't offer a lot of finger-pointing, it does make clear that the war on Afghanistan was a colossal tragedy for the Afghan people. Matthew Heineman’s documentary "Retrograde": A chilling, intimate view of the Afghanistan War's end 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

The dignitaries — including ambassadors from Japan, Afghanistan, Denmark and Peru — were introduced with the traditional red-carpet entrance and military escorts. Having a ball, in lavish fashion, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

In addition, the American military remains unmatched and, despite intense stress from a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, it has not suffered the disarray that afflicted it in Vietnam. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

The film also deals with Amin’s coming to terms with being gay — he says there wasn’t even a word for it in Afghanistan — and his fears of his family’s reaction. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

With the escalating crisis in Afghanistan, tensions around migration were once again rising in Europe. Four Months, 5,000 Miles: A Refugee Puppet Looks for Home 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Smith is in a grotty hotel room in Cork and he's been moved to pick up his video camera: Britain and the US have just invaded Afghanistan. Berlin Biennale 2010: where art imitates real life 2010-06-15T11:57:00Z

He spoke briefly about how his experiences as a marine helped shape “Redeployment,” which takes place on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the United States, when soldiers return home. Phil Klay's Literary Salon on the F Train 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Zaman, 49, opened the restaurant in November, transforming an industrial space with wine-dark carpets and embossed ceiling tiles that remind him of the houses in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he grew up. Afghan Delights, Delicate and Rugged, at Sami’s Kabab House in Queens 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Many of their leaders settled in the bustling Pakistan city of Quetta, once an outpost of the British Empire that guarded the southern gateway to India from Afghanistan through the Bolan Pass. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

After Vietnam and Iraq, and with American troops still in Afghanistan, the interventionist scenario has less appeal than it did a half-century ago. Then and Now: Hollywood Remakes as Election-Year Players 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

But Roy instead threw herself into political activism and became a vocal supporter of the Kashmiri separatist movement, an opponent of the American intervention in Afghanistan, and an advocate for human rights and environmental causes. After a 20-Year Hiatus, the Booker Prize-Winning Novelist Arundhati Roy Returns to Fiction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Harry, who stepped down from royal duties last year and moved to California, spoke for the first time about how the Duke of Edinburgh gave him the space to talk about serving in Afghanistan. The barbecue king: British royals praise Philip’s deft touch 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

Nathan Harris, a Marine injured in Afghanistan whose emotional struggle to transition back to life in North Carolina is depicted in "Hell and Back Again." A nun, football coach and Marine going to Oscars 2012-02-23T11:46:03Z

So did the Wall Street Journal editorial page, which suggested that President Biden put “this extraordinary woman” in charge of the Afghanistan evacuation — before correcting the editorial to note that Reneau had not flown anywhere. Lawyer for Afghan girls’ robotics team tells Oklahoma woman to stop taking credit for rescue 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

After two tours in Afghanistan she returned to the ranch, much to the delight of her father, Harry. Aloha, partner: Riding the Hawaiian range 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

After Iraq, so alienated from war had the public become that some publishers to whom he showed his work advised him to cut it in half and relocate it in Afghanistan. Vietnam road 2010-07-10T23:01:00Z

The harsh terrain of eastern Afghanistan where Bergdahl was released resembled a movie set, and the 18 militants, brandishing rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, looked like extras. Taliban's video of Bowe Bergdahl handover is a vivid reminder of war 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

And the viewer knows about the war in Afghanistan and how it all fell apart, but this is a totally new part of the story. "Taking sides is not my job": "Retrograde" filmmaker Matthew Heineman on documenting a war's end 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Usually when we hear about war, we think about Iraq and Afghanistan. Burma literary festival flourishes under patron Aung San Suu Kyi 2013-02-03T19:30:37Z

Right now I am producing “The Breadwinner,” an animated film about Afghanistan. Angelina Jolie Pitt Is Behind Closed Doors in ‘By the Sea’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

In the predawn hours of July 1 they departed, the few remaining U.S. troops at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, the center of operations for America’s longest war. How America Lost Its Way in Afghanistan 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

AP reporters in Afghanistan found no evidence of any such Taliban edict. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Afghanistan now has more refugees around the world than any other country: three million Afghans have been displaced since 2002, according to the UN's High Commission for Refugees. How do you put the Kite Runner on stage? 2013-05-14T17:39:40Z

Ellis beautifully captures childhood in war-torn Afghanistan and Pakistan. Malala Yousafzai: By the Book 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Los Angeles artist Meg Cranston wasn’t sure what to expect when she signed on for a visit to Afghanistan last year. Common Cause 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

In both “Buzkashi Boys,” set in Afghanistan, and “Asad,” in a Somali fishing village, the vitality and the adventurous spirit of preadolescent boys mitigate the surrounding despair and misery. Movie Review: ‘The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013’ Anthology 2013-01-31T22:57:57Z

"Why are we bombarding Afghanistan?" a Pakistani agent asks the American commander. Tere Bin Laden: satire with a sting 2010-07-22T15:25:00Z

Mr. Smith takes this indictment further than others by criticizing even the decision to go to war in Afghanistan, suggesting that it was a mistake to conflate the Taliban with Al Qaeda. Review: ‘Bush,’ a Biography as Scathing Indictment 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z

“The Army isn’t on the ground in Afghanistan, so basically it’s not their war,” one voice says. 'The Americans' Recap: The Moment Finally Arrives 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

After all, the image of sailors huddling around a computer screen watching videos of attacks against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan isn’t exactly an image the Navy would want to project. Our militaristic leaders are the problem: “Railing against vets in the face of this madness is cowardice” 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

In another proposal, companies could qualify for tax credits of up to $5,000 for each veteran who served in Iraq, Afghanistan or the Gulf War hired after Jan. 1. Quinn shoves aside state's budget woes 2012-02-02T06:00:00Z

Afghanistan had a burgeoning film industry starting in the early 20th century, but it suffered from fighting during the civil war and the Taliban campaign to stamp out entertainment. Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet 2013-02-07T17:30:11Z

He's also worked as special adviser for humanitarian and NGO affairs in the State Department's Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen a Rhodes scholar 2011-11-20T16:52:08Z

We would thus suggest the following: Experience Sharing/Afghanistan: -- What were the problems faced in Afghanistan at the strategic level; at the tactical level? US embassy cables: Indian jihadi groups 'interested in bio-terrorism' 2010-12-16T21:30:30Z

He had left the Secret Service in 2008 to join a private company supporting national security missions; the next year, he landed in Afghanistan on a contract with the CIA. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

President Barack Obama salutes during a ceremony for the dignified transfer of U.S. and Afghan personnel who died in the helicopter crash in Afghanistan. NATO kills Taliban behind downing of copter 2011-08-10T14:01:03Z

He took two breaks from school to travel to Afghanistan and fight the Soviets. Read “Guantánamo Diary” 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Afghanistan is a political entity that arose in the mid-18th century in an area that played a central role in the elaboration of Iranian culture in its Islamicized garb. Art Review: Murky Exploration of an Iranian Past 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z

Williams, who died Monday of an apparent suicide at age 63, went on his first tour that year to perform for troops in Afghanistan and Turkey, according to the USO. Robin Williams' USO tours made him a familiar face to military crowds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

More ex-soldiers have killed themselves since the Afghanistan war began than have been killed in battle. Medic, Letters from the Trenches, The Pacific and Sandstealers 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z

The countries included in the review range from China, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan to Central African Republic, Chad, Guatemala and Mexico, among others. Poorer countries lack midwives to cut birth deaths: report 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

The men looked the same as they do in Afghanistan; the girls looked different. 'My worries are not over': diary of a 16-year-old Afghan refugee 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Afghanistan, which he has reported on since the 1990s, is among the former, he believes. Sebastian Junger reflects on friendship, war and peace 2011-06-09T22:27:00Z

Whenever tensions flare in the Middle East, we're reminded of his administration's role in selling wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the American public using false information. "This is not a whitewash": PBS filmmakers on working with documented liars for George W. Bush series 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

A young man who leads the local offices for an international cultural heritage organization said he was determined to stay in Afghanistan. Perspective | Artists and cultural workers face life under Taliban 2.0 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, giving birth is 200 times more likely to kill a woman than bullets or bombs. Motherlode: Save the Mothers 2011-05-03T16:33:13Z

Army sergeant who walked off his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was subsequently captured by the Taliban and held for five years. True crime and punishment: “Serial” creators on the dark and difficult truths of their third... 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

After finishing Yale Law at 21, he spent two years at the State Department during the Obama administration, running U.S. relations with nongovernmental organizations in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Ronan Farrow overcame spies and intimidation to break some of the biggest stories of the #MeToo era 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Kerns lost his right arm below the elbow and both his legs below the knees in an explosion in Afghanistan. 'Forrest Gump' actor Sinise to raise money for vet 2012-05-21T12:23:09Z

He tied the group’s complaints about “South Park” to larger frustrations about American support for Israel and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After Warning, ?South Park? Episode Is Altered 2010-04-22T21:51:00Z

Following the 9/11 attacks, Jandal was interrogated by FBI officials and became a valuable source of information, identifying many of the hijackers and giving the U.S. details on Afghanistan before the 2001 invasion. The Oath: A Tale of Two Al-Qaeda Operatives 2010-02-20T04:35:00Z

“ISIS in Afghanistan,” of course, was made before the coordinated attacks on the French capital, and it does not discuss the way fighters plan major attacks or move into non-Islamic regions. See ISIS up close: Vivid context for Paris attacks in this chilling Frontline documentary 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

He’d spent twelve years in the Marine Corps, he said, deployed in Afghanistan. A Dark Night at the Javits Center 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

"A film about the assassination of a foreign leader mirrors what the U.S. has done in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine," he said. North Korea denounces James Franco and Seth Rogen's Kim Jong Un movie 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

There is good work, too, from Nicholas Karimi as Assef, the bully whose psychopathic tendencies find an outlet in an Afghanistan terrorised by the Taliban. The Kite Runner – review 2013-04-30T11:52:13Z

After marrying a former mujahideen fighter, her safety was compromised and she was forced to leave Afghanistan. Deborah Rodriguez: 'Kabul Beauty School' author turns to Mazatlan 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Several residents of Duval County, Florida, are protesting the inclusion of two children's books set in Afghanistan and Iraq in the third-grade curriculum of the county's public schools, the Florida Times-Union reports. Children's books set in Afghanistan, Iraq challenged in Florida schools 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Twenty years ago, in these pages, as the pile at Ground Zero still smoldered and the long war in Afghanistan had just begun, the critic Margo Jefferson gave an answer that’s always stuck with me. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

His two heart-tugging, blockbuster novels, set in his native Afghanistan, offered simple tales of redemption and grace while the ugly realities of war in the country rumbled through the news. Khaled Hosseini: 'If I could go back now, I'd take The Kite Runner apart' 2013-06-01T08:29:01Z

In this new show he embarks on adventures with Jonathon Blank, who lost his legs in Afghanistan; a woman with failing eyesight; and others. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Krypton’ and ‘The X-Files’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

It’s impossible to calculate how much was squandered or stolen in Afghanistan at this point, but Sopko says he knows why it happened. ‘It’s John against the world right now’

We follow a small group of them from Denmark to Afghanistan, where the newcomers quickly blend in with the old-timers. | 'Armadillo': Fortunes and Misfortunes of War, From a Danish Perspective 2011-04-14T23:21:04Z

Wars were being fought in Afghanistan and, very soon, Iraq. Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:24Z

Waging endless war — on Afghanistan, on Iraq, on terror — yielded nothing so definitive as peace or victory, and instead simply fueled a “grotesque subtext” to which Trump proved to be remarkably attuned. ‘Reign of Terror’ Brilliantly Traces the Course From 9/11 to President Trump 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

The three join the army and are sent to Afghanistan. Pink Mist by Owen Sheers – review 2013-05-26T10:00:01Z

My own intestines exploded on the first of my four combat embeds, three in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z

“They belong to the people of Afghanistan,” Lee said. Relics seized from smugglers are returning to Afghanistan 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

His ability to attract disparate followers persists, and proponents of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan also cite Niebuhr. Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z

It wanted to exit Iraq and Afghanistan as fast as possible and was, like its successor, squeamish about Syria. The Military’s Illusions About Donald Trump 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

At night, the students often dream about Afghanistan. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

But Afghanistan is a beautiful country and I knew it was unlikely I would return. Perspective | What’s happening in Afghanistan can’t be reduced to images with historic parallels. When will we learn to see things in real time? 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

A U.S. soldier from 3rd platoon Bronco troop 5-20 infantry Regiment attached to 82nd Airborne looks through his sights while on patrol with Afghan national Army soldiers in Zharay district in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. Poll: Global policy a hit at home 2012-05-18T06:05:00Z

The 35-year-old country singer appeared earlier this month on "America's Got Talent" and said he was injured by a grenade in Afghanistan in 2009, but Minnesota National Guard records didn't support his story. Singing soldier cut from 'America's Got Talent' 2012-06-27T03:03:07Z

And his large photographic images — many of them based on photos he took during a trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the mid-1970s — often seem to have emerged from a mismanaged laboratory experiment. Sigmar Polke, Whose Sly Works Shaped Contemporary Painting, Dies at 69 2010-06-12T02:59:00Z

Graff, who is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, depicts his battle-scarred heroes with knowing generosity. They’re Not Lost in the Woods, They’re Thriving 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

David James Kelso, who was with the platoon during filming and is currently finishing another deployment in Afghanistan, said he's been surprised by the success of the film. War film documents grim Afghan reality for troops 2010-08-06T16:40:00Z

One combat veteran who served in Afghanistan, for example, shared with my psychology of war class an experience in which he shot and killed a child soldier who was about to fire on his men. “Moral injury” in veterans can be a harmful as physical wounds 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

They go, "Biden pulled out of Afghanistan. He really messed that up. And now these terrorists are coming from Afghanistan to America. We shouldn't let them in." Muslim-American comics after 9/11: "I thought comedy was over, but it was more important than ever" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Kobzon began his musical career in the ensemble of the Soviet army and frequently performed to troops, including in Afghanistan in the 1980s and at a Russian military base in Syria in 2016. Sanctioned Russian singer Kobzon, dubbed Russia's Sinatra, dies... 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

It stated that Killick had not witnessed colleagues being killed or injured in Afghanistan. 'You don't ever get over it': meet the British soldiers living with post-traumatic stress disorder 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

The buddy comedy centers on the friendship of Riley, a combat veteran who fought in the Mideast, and Awalmir, aka Al, the Afghanistan translator he helped bring to the U.S. New this week: Documentaries on Bieber, Fauci and ‘Buried’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

There’s Harry’s description of his brother, William, knocking him to the floor during a fight, and Harry’s admission that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan. The Rollout of Prince Harry’s Book Is Chaotic. Sales Are Still Surging. 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

While the document would not nail down details, it is expected to contain an agreement in principle to some sort of long-term presence in Afghanistan. Afghanistan, U.S. sign prison transfer deal 2012-03-09T12:40:00Z

The omission is a testament to the emotional and psychological echoes from Iraq and Afghanistan, two of the longest wars in U.S. history. Did 'American Sniper' miss an important mark? 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

"The U.S. lost a lot of money and a lot of people in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we're fighting with ideas." Anti-Islam filmmaker in hiding after protests 2012-09-12T09:31:04Z

Aayan and his medical-student girlfriend are loaded with significance — think of Saul’s lament over all the good we could have done had we stayed on the ground in Afghanistan. 'Homeland' Recap: It's Back, With Quinn in the Driver's Seat 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

The institute was once famous for its inclusiveness and emerged as the face of a new Afghanistan. Under Taliban, thriving Afghan music scene heads to silence 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

In this book, Mr. Panetta skims over crucial Defense Department issues, including systemic problems in veterans’ hospitals, and a military stretched thin during two long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ‘Worthy Fights,’ by Leon E. Panetta 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Were we right to call the terrorists cowards, or does withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan prove bin Laden’s point about American cowardice, a repetition of the pattern established in Somalia, Beirut or Vietnam? Boston Marathon bombing, one year later: Were the Tsarnaevs really cowards? 2014-04-14T23:00:00Z

A few infantrymen still carried those in Iraq and Afghanistan because they’re very reliable rifles. The Walking Dead Watch: Too Far Gone 2013-12-02T10:14:40Z

Still, there must be an awful lot of ex-soldiers like me in this country who sometimes find themselves in Afghanistan when the rest of the country is anywhere but. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

"The Photographer" told the story of a French medical mission into war-torn Afghanistan. 'How the World Was' a vivid tale of a 20th century California boyhood 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

And talking of Afghanistan, you couldn't find a story more real than this one. Elizabeth Laird's top 10 books about tough stuff from out there 2012-05-17T08:00:00Z

Lovell trained the Mother as a sniper in Afghanistan. ‘The Mother’ Review: Are You My Sniper? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

In videotaped excerpts from the show provided by CNN, Damon also says he "definitely wanted more" from Obama, and criticizes the president for not having a clear exit strategy in Afghanistan.  Matt Damon disappointed in Obama: "I no longer hope for audacity" 2011-03-03T23:30:00Z

Pitt's latest movie "War Machine," a satirical look at the U.S. war in Afghanistan, is due for release on May 26. Brad Pitt says he quit drinking, in therapy after split with Jolie 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Sky's Alex Crawford was honoured as TV journalist of the year for her work on Afghanistan and the Mumbai attacks. Sky wins news channel of the year 2010-02-25T12:00:00Z

"This incident is tragic and shocking, and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the United States has for the people of Afghanistan." Shooting raises questions about war's course 2012-03-12T05:00:00Z

Frankham mentioned Syria and Afghanistan as areas of interest, though the feasibility of filming in those places is uncertain. Photojournalists "Witness" war zones in new HBO series 2012-11-02T22:34:07Z

"They are in Afghanistan and were involved in Libya, but it's far too soon to draw any conclusions." Blast rocks government buildings in Olso 2011-07-22T14:33:06Z

The recent tragedy in Afghanistan will not deter us from pursuing our fundamental strategy. Shooting raises questions about war's course 2012-03-11T22:17:00Z

At that time, the Taliban governed most of Afghanistan, and were engaged in a long-running civil war against a Russian-backed insurgency known euphemistically as the Northern Alliance. America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z

"Our education mission includes both educating young people in Pakistan and Afghanistan - especially girls - and educating the American public about how promoting education in these countries contributes to peace," he told the magazine. APNewsBreak: Inquiry into 'Three Cups' charity 2011-04-20T00:21:08Z

Amid The Great Game lurk glimpses of the modernised Afghanistan which might have flowered had it been left alone. In the line of fire: theatre and Afghanistan 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z

Afghanistan has often enough been called “the graveyard of empires.” Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

His take is that the army never really committed to the concept of fostering good will or rebuilding Afghanistan. Serial recap – season two, episode six: five o'clock shadow 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Based on The Operators, a book about controversial US army general Stanley McChrystal, the film takes place on a big scale, across Afghanistan and along the corridors of power in DC. War Machine: let battle commence in Netflix assault on cinema 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

Over 30 years in the military, she served in Kosovo and Afghanistan and was awarded the Bronze Star. For the first time, a state’s National Guard command staff is made up of all women 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

While Americans are relieved to hear the administration announce new figures for the evacuation effort — more than 105,000 by Friday — others look at those departures and measure the loss to Afghanistan’s future. Perspective | Artists and cultural workers face life under Taliban 2.0 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

International outrage over the event, which ended in the burning of the holy book, led to rioting in Afghanistan. A year ago, Ahmed Mohamed became ‘Clock Boy.’ Now, he can’t escape that moment. 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

And never mind Afghanistan, with its own grim numbers and horrific consequences. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

It's the same story in Afghanistan, Iraq and South America. Oliver Stone 2010-07-17T23:00:00Z

He had helped negotiate the end of the war in Bosnia and there were hopes that he could do the same in Afghanistan. Serial recap – season two, episode nine: Trade Secrets 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

It is thus odd, however, that Axworthy, so careful to counter myths about Iran, states so baldly that the US financed "al-Qaida and the Taliban to prevent pro-Iranian groups taking over Afghanistan". Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-25T10:00:01Z

These are stories of painful awakenings and refusals of innocence, emerging out of the ashes of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, despoliation and environmental plunder. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Strick van Linschoten said the book was part of a wider effort to archive and digitize more than a million of words' worth of old Taliban documents recovered from Afghanistan. UK publisher to release Taliban poetry anthology 2012-05-05T19:46:04Z

This year's summit, hosted by President , will focus heavily on the future of western military intervention in Afghanistan. NATO staffers to check out city this week 2012-03-26T02:44:00Z

More than a million veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are expected to return to the U.S. over the next five years, said Chris Marvin, director of Got Your 6. Hollywood studios, guilds, agencies align for vets 2012-05-10T06:16:03Z

In an interview with Artforum, Mr. Brook said he never learned the nature of the crime committed by the man he had met in Afghanistan. Review: In ‘The Prisoner,’ Peter Brook Ponders Crime and Punishment 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

After serving in Afghanistan, Jess was moved from what he called a “more liberal” unit to one where he was “pushed back in the closet.” Jeff Sheng?s Photos of Gay Military Personnel 2010-03-18T02:13:00Z

The twice-rescued young man greets you at the start of Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World, the British Museum's compelling new show. The ghosts of ancient Afghanistan 2011-02-27T21:30:00Z

And after seven hours of such soundings, you can be forgiven for thinking of Afghanistan as something Samuel Beckett, in a really down mood, might have come up with. | 'The Great Game: Afghanistan' : The Curtain Rises: Enter, Reality 2010-12-08T03:05:00Z

In the intervening period, the western project in Afghanistan was something much more ambitious, involving the creation of a prosperous, stable democracy with significantly improved human rights for women and minorities. Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran – review 2012-07-06T10:00:02Z

The Afghanistan war tale "Lone Survivor" took the No. 2 spot with ticket sales of $12.6 million. 'Ride Along' rumbles to a second win at U.S. box office 2014-01-26T17:00:08Z

Another priority for the Indians is the fear that the US will withdraw from Afghanistan, allowing a "fanatical" regime to take over and Pakistan to exert significant influence there. WikiLeaks cables show warming relationship between India and US 2010-12-16T21:30:23Z

“There’s always a camera, right? J. C. Penney or Afghanistan. Everything is witnessed.” Anne Hathaway’s Solo Turn as a Fighter Pilot in ‘Grounded’ at the Public Theater 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

Well, Kabul is the safest place in Afghanistan by a long way. William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z

He would, once again, draw upon old memories of Afghanistan, a country he left as a child. Hosseini discusses new novel at NYC reading 2013-05-22T06:54:09Z

He also said Mr. Quinn, who has frequently performed for U.S. troops in the Middle East, was eager to bring the show to Afghanistan. ArtsBeat: Colin Quinn's Broadway Show Will Become an HBO Special 2011-01-27T17:30:56Z

The first episode sees her visiting her troops in Afghanistan - and so it seems TV's blending of fact and fiction is set to continue into 2013. Political drama 2012: Fact v fiction 2012-12-31T07:11:28Z

Navy SEALs who run into an ambush in Afghanistan, was sixth with sales of $5.3 million. 'LEGO Movie' tops 'Monuments Men' to score huge U.S. box office win 2014-02-10T12:04:29Z

There was this moment for me when the U.S. invaded, and I went back to Afghanistan. "Facing the Dragon": How Sedika Mojadidi made her "immersive and intimate" doc about Afghan women 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

“It was our dream to change the narrative of Afghanistan, because we were tired of those cliches about Afghanistan,” she said. Afghan filmmakers at Venice fear loss of identity, culture 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

What would they make of synchronised swimming in Afghanistan, I wonder. Blood, Sweat and Luxuries, Afghan Star and Olympic Dreams 2010-04-20T23:05:00Z

The movie shifts into a steady action groove once the not especially dirty dozen lands in Afghanistan. Review: ‘12 Strong’ Believes in the Brotherhood of Battle 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Call it the eternal past — it forms part of the living reality in extensive areas of the Persian-speaking world as far afield as northern Afghanistan or Tajikistan. Turkey Reawakening to Its Vast Iranian Ties 2010-04-23T11:35:00Z

More recently, the issue of stage design has been thrown into sharp focus by productions at Shakespeare's Globe from countries including South Sudan and Afghanistan. No sets, please, for Shakespeare – or anything else 2012-07-04T13:07:54Z

Simon supported President Bush and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks. The politics of Captain America 2011-07-19T21:01:00Z

When the opportunity arose to choose a foreign station, he decided on Guantánamo, rather than Afghanistan or Iraq. Leaking the Guatánamo prisoner names: How and why a former Navy lawyer took such a huge risk 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

She is selling it to benefit girls’ education projects in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries. Pollock, Richter, Cézanne, Among Those on Auction Block 2013-05-02T22:41:58Z

Meanwhile, the flag was signed by New York's governor and two mayors and flown at Yankee Stadium, outside City Hall and on an aircraft carrier near Afghanistan — except it wasn't the right flag. Vanished flag from famous 9/11 photo returns to ground zero 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Also in competition and premiering on Monday is "Essential Killing," a different struggle for survival with Vincent Gallo as a suspected Taliban fighter on the run from U.S. forces in Afghanistan and later in Europe. Chinese film on 1960 labor camps cheered in Venice 2010-09-06T13:19:00Z

This year saw the end of the UK combat mission to Afghanistan. Motion's poetry of combat 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

In his first term, President Obama turned to the late Richard Holbrooke to take on a new post — special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

About America’s colonization and its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the effects of those wars, about the current drone campaigns, and on and on? I still can’t stand white belly dancers 2014-03-18T23:00:00Z

The conflict in Afghanistan is a high-profile, running news story, and yet the underlying issues do not change. In the line of fire: theatre and Afghanistan 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z

Among the other problems these students want to solve: Afghanistan’s issues, homelessness and global warming. November Class of KidsPost: Silverbrook Elementary fifth-graders 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

In addition to the New York run, the musical has had thousands of productions in more than 60 countries outside the United States, including Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iran. ‘The Fantasticks’ Is Set to Close Off Broadway in June 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, he had a limited amount of choices. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z

But that Oscar-winning actor gives a fiercely good performance as a cocky pilot raining bombs down on Iraq and Afghanistan in the solo play “Grounded,” by George Brant. Anne Hathaway’s Solo Turn as a Fighter Pilot in ‘Grounded’ at the Public Theater 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

There are reminders of Afghanistan: photos of her grandfather, decorated with hearts and butterflies; a book of poems; and a painting of her grandmother. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Modern military vehicles also feature, and there's a re-enactment of an incident from Afghanistan, although tradition will be the big draw, with a cavalry charge and the martial skills of more than 500 troops. This week's new events 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

The music he developed, untouched by the region’s modern political and religious fractures, blended the great Farsi poetic tradition of Iran, the folk and oral heritage of Afghanistan and the vastness of India’s classical music. An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

The British ambassador to Afghanistan, Mark Sedwill, described the purpose of the exhibition as "giving the Afghan people back that sense of cultural heritage that was so nearly taken from them". The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z

A senior U.S. defense official said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta "was deeply saddened to hear last night of this incident and is closely monitoring reports out of Afghanistan." 16 Afghan civilians killed in U.S. spree 2012-03-11T19:19:03Z

He enlists as well the agent’s friend and comrade, a gentleman soldier recently returned from a tour in Afghanistan with the British East India Company. ‘The Infidel Stain’ evokes a chilling time in Victorian England 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Ma had a hand in helping them get out of Afghanistan. Yo-Yo Ma plays Mozart with Afghan refugees in Portugal 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Like we would meet sometimes and somebody would say, “I see Jesse as a war correspondent in Afghanistan.” Joel Stein Talks with the Director and Stars of Before Midnight 2013-05-23T18:29:15Z

Academics who study procrastination fall into camps with about as much in common as the tribes of Afghanistan. Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z

“The fact is, two million Americans were sent to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. Twenty-five per cent of them have P.T.S.D. or Traumatic Brain Injury. Which makes for half a million mentally wounded American veterans.” Colbert Honors StoryCorps’s Military Voices Initiative 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Without making an issue film, Palangi hoped to normalize perceptions of Afghanistan. AFI Docs trains its lens on Afghanistan as festival kicks off 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

It's a startling concession from an author whose eyewitness accounts from Liberia, Afghanistan and other global hot spots can make readers imagine they're inches away from the mortar blasts and AK-47 rounds. Sebastian Junger reflects on friendship, war and peace 2011-06-09T22:27:00Z

Pilger's contention is that on Afghanistan, on Iraq and on Israel and the Palestinian territories, the mainstream media simply take the official line. The War You Don't See ? review 2010-12-09T22:49:00Z

In his book Plagues and Peoples, the historian William Hardy McNeill describes how the British army carried cholera overland into Nepal and Afghanistan, while British navy and merchant ships carried it beyond the Indian Ocean. Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

As one character says: "When we leave Afghanistan, a little bit of it stays with us, or us with it." TV highlights 26/06/2012 2012-06-25T18:59:01Z

"Afghanistan was a war of mistakes, a war of enormous collateral damage – thousands of innocents killed and maimed, and that always haunted us," Harry wrote. The 13 biggest bombshells from Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir “Spare” 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

At the end of the meetings, both sides were ready to move forward with the negotiations and begin the steps to end the war in Afghanistan. Serial recap – season two, episode nine: Trade Secrets 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Eventually all three worked in Iraq and Afghanistan. Filmmaker Jeremy Scahill focuses on ‘Dirty Wars’ 2013-06-07T22:19:53Z

This season revolves around a private defense contractor, played by Mr. Goodman, doing some nefarious business in Afghanistan, which Ms. Byrne’s character seeks to uncover. Legal Drama Has a Change of Venue, From Cable to Satellite 2011-07-19T22:15:19Z

The time is 2013, 12 years after the beginning of America’s “forever war” in Afghanistan, eight years before its unceremonious close and a moment in which the United States has radically reduced its troop presence. ‘Selling Kabul’ Review: Trapped in a War, and an Apartment 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

My fictional grower, Sullivan Stiles, was a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, a devoted father, and a Montana transplant who noticed details like dawn light. The complexities of cannabis: How I learned growing pot isn't for slackers 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Holbrooke, though, wanted a political end to the war in Afghanistan, which rubbed many people, including Barack Obama, the wrong way, according to Koenig. Serial recap – season two, episode nine: Trade Secrets 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

And would they rejoin the fight, making it harder for the military still in Afghanistan to do their jobs safely? Serial recap – season two, episode 10: Thorny Politics 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

August is not half over, and already it’s been a punishing month for Barack Obama: the debt limit fiasco; the Standard & Poor’s downgrade; the deaths of Navy Seals and other troops in Afghanistan. Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race 2011-08-11T22:00:15Z

Playing Holmes as a self-styled "high-functioning sociopath", Benedict Cumberbatch fizzes with energy, while Martin Freeman's Watson, an Afghanistan veteran, makes a suitably quizzical sidekick. BBC Proms 2010-07-24T05:45:00Z

The impetus for "Indemnity" came about a couple of years ago when I read about American soldiers returning from Afghanistan war who were having trouble reintegrating into society. "Indemnity" director on his unique South African action film: "What if trauma can be weaponized?" 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

The back story is that Jack Dana, educated at Yale, Oxford and Harvard, joins the Marines just after the 9/11 attacks and survives brutal combat in Afghanistan. ‘Killer, Come Hither,’ a legal thriller set amid New York’s upper crust 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says there have been three documentary features nominees filmed at least in part in Afghanistan since 2007 - all about the U.S. military. Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet 2013-02-07T17:30:11Z

It remains today as an embarkation point for troops bound for Afghanistan, and a reminder of the Great Game in which Kyrgyzstan is ensnared. 2010-01-28T08:50:00Z

We tend to think of America as occupying other countries — Japan and Germany after World War II, Afghanistan and Iraq more recently. Assaults and Occupations in Wartime 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

As she peers down through her monitor at Afghanistan, day after day, the activity of watching becomes first an uneasy thrill — and then something more threatening. ‘Grounded’ at Studio Theatre: A new view of drone warfare

It is not clear whether his wounds were from the war in Afghanistan, which the Soviet Union invaded in 1979, or what eventually became of him. Abandoned Budapest hospital offers glimpse into Soviet past 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Beyond the enjoyment the sport brings, he said, it helps forge camaraderie with migrants from other cricket-playing nations including Afghanistan, Bangladesh and even India, Pakistan’s archrival on and off the pitch. Pakistan's street cricketers bring game to life in Greece 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

Today these guys in Afghanistan fight in bloody hell and are flown back in 18 hours. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

In Afghanistan, it’s difficult just to walk in the street at night. Kabul graffiti artist 'giving women in Afghanistan a voice' 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

This documentary, directed by Greg Barker, recounts secret missions by Special Forces who were sent to Afghanistan immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Review: ‘Legion of Brothers’ on Secret Missions in Afghanistan 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

In her book, published last month, Addario recounts her experiences documenting the past decade of global war and strife in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Congo. Steven Spielberg to direct Jennifer Lawrence as war photographer 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

"The festival last year was attended by men and women from all areas and ethnic groups of Afghanistan," said Sound Central organiser Travis Beard. Afghanistan music festival organisers hope for repeat of last year's success 2012-08-26T14:01:16Z

Travis is teenage Marine adjusting to life back at home after being deployed to Afghanistan. Lenore Appelhans's top 10 books featuring flashbacks 2013-01-17T12:35:11Z

Fitzsimons had joined up at 16, excelled in training, saw active service in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, and won a distinction as a sniper. 'You don't ever get over it': meet the British soldiers living with post-traumatic stress disorder 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

I've had people email me from Korea, Afghanistan, saying how much they were touched by this film. Best short films on the web 2010-12-19T00:04:08Z

There are thousands of Americans, including hundreds in Washington, who served in Afghanistan and developed a real affection for the people and the place. What does Afghanistan need? Some major rebranding, says its 32-year-old ambassador. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

“She called herself an old monument and a lot of Afghans called her the ‘Grandmother of Afghanistan,'” said Wahid Wafa, Executive Director of the Afghanistan Centre. Nancy Hatch Dupree 'Grandmother of Afghanistan' dies in Kabul 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

She also worked to provide clothing and basic necessities for refugees from Syria and Afghanistan at the Slovenian border. Kelley McKenna, Bradford Atwood 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

Because stress can aggravate symptoms, Bergdahl’s basic training in the coastguard and the deployment to Afghanistan triggered his mental illness. Serial recap – season two, episode eight: Hindsight, Part 2 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Harry served two tours in Afghanistan, partly as a helicopter pilot. Prince Harry thanks Estonia for Afghan campaign 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Hassan never truly leaves Amir, though; he carries the guilt to America, to which he and Baba escape after Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan ushers in the vicious regime of the Taliban. Review: ‘The Kite Runner’ Trips From Page to Stage 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

The band is donating $1 from each ticket to the Wounded Warriors Project, a group that helps rehabilitate veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. KISS unveils "Hottest Show on Earth" tour of U.S. 2010-05-24T20:28:00Z

He receives messages from friends back in Afghanistan, fellow musicians who have given up their careers because of Taliban restrictions on playing music. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

At the moment US security forces are dealing with "rural" militancy in Afghanistan and "urban" militancy in Iraq. US embassy cables: Indian jihadi groups 'interested in bio-terrorism' 2010-12-16T21:30:30Z

As the war in Vietnam recedes deeper into history, replaced in the American consciousness by more recent conflicts in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, its lessons also seem to fade. In the Fall of Saigon, Lessons for Today 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

DAY 1 The 35th MEU is on the ground at Kabul, preparing to deploy to southern Afghanistan. What Happens to a Reddit Thread When It Becomes a Hollywood Movie? 2013-01-17T15:00:24Z

Queen Elizabeth unveiled a memorial on Thursday to British armed forces and civilians who served during recent wars in the Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq and their work "to bring peace and stability". UK's queen unveils memorial dedicated to Britons involved in Afghan, Iraq wars 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

But upon returning to Holly Grove, she encounters a friend from high school who lost a leg while serving in Afghanistan but proves to be an unusually attractive and sympathetic man. A chilling look at crimes against women in ‘A Good Killing’ 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

Three times in two generations — in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan — he adds, “the United States abandoned wars midstream as inadequately transformative or as misconceived.” In ‘World Order,’ Henry Kissinger Sums Up His Philosophy 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

While we were edified, amused, enraged and reassured by what we told ourselves was the story of Afghanistan, an entirely different tale was unspooling outside the dominant narrative. Perspective | Even the best films about Afghanistan couldn’t have prepared us for this scene 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

"Contrary to what most people in the developed world seem to believe, progress for women has occurred in Afghanistan, and against overwhelming odds." Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z

The training camp in Afghanistan where the Ansar received their infantry training was funded by Osama bin Laden, who also visited the camp on a regular basis. America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z

Undermining the Mujahideen is critical for the Soviets as they suffer heavy casualties in the Afghanistan war. 'The Americans' recap: Nina, Elizabeth seduce their targets 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

It provokes men in Afghanistan to see strong women. Afghanistan women's lives in exhibition at Newcastle 2012-08-22T16:27:00Z

At one point he was said to have controlled 10 percent of the world’s hashish market, his product transported to Britain and the United States from Pakistan and Afghanistan. | 'Mr. Nice': Reliving a Drug Dealer?s Halcyon Days 2011-06-02T21:47:04Z

Detailing a year the two men spent with an Army unit in Afghanistan, recorded life and death on the front lines of America's nearly anonymous "other war." Tim Hetherington: War Hero Who Shot With a Camera 2011-04-21T10:20:00Z

It seemed clear that we didn't understand Afghanistan. "Taking sides is not my job": "Retrograde" filmmaker Matthew Heineman on documenting a war's end 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Now the play arrives on Broadway almost a year after the United States withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban seized power again. A Chameleon Flies From ‘The Blacklist’ to ‘The Kite Runner’ 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

That quote from an Afghanistan war log is at the start of the climactic number in “The Source,” Ted Hearne’s ambitious, bewildering, stealthily shattering new oratorio about Chelsea Manning, formerly Pvt. ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

In a previous body of work, Ms. Curran enlisted a local artisan to hand-color the photographs she took of Western soldiers in Afghanistan. ‘Vertigo,’ Through Two Artists’ Eyes 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Some of his friends disagree; they think they helped the people of Afghanistan, even improved the world. Fiction: ‘Full Measure’ is a moving portrait of Marines who fought in Afghanistan

One general described her as “seemingly immune to the notion of modesty,” referring to the attire she was said to have worn in Afghanistan. Paula Broadwell, David Petraeus and the Afterlife of a Scandal 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Along with troops, the UK is pouring aid into Afghanistan. Karen Woo: a tribute by her brother 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

Allie, a civilian lawyer for the Army, D.C.-based but dispatched frequently to Afghanistan and Iraq, never married. A Comic Novel About the George W. Bush No One Knows 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

“The Taliban are not friends of Afghanistan, they are our enemies. Only enemies would want to destroy your history and your music,” she said. Under Taliban, thriving Afghan music scene heads to silence 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

At one point, Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, prodded Campbell to articulate the necessity of an American presence in Afghanistan: How “Homeland” Helps Justify the War on Terror 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

Besides, he says, winning a war isn’t merely a matter of military victories — something that Romney and Obama should ponder as they consider the risks of intervening in Iran or leaving Afghanistan. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z

Along with Pashto, the language of the Pashtuns, Dari is named in the constitution as one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. BBC name change stirs language row in Afghanistan 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

India and Japan in promoting democracy and good governance in Afghanistan. US embassy cables: How India can help stabilise Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:33Z

If Afghanistan seems to have been one turning point in his life, the phone-hacking cases will almost certainly be another. Jude Law interview: 'I was an optimist. A champion of the human spirit' 2011-07-30T21:00:02Z

The book — published two years after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to depose the Taliban — has captivated millions of readers around the world. A Chameleon Flies From ‘The Blacklist’ to ‘The Kite Runner’ 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

In 2009 she had fled her husband's house, complaining of beatings, maltreatment and a life, not uncommon among women in Afghanistan, that amounted to abject slavery. Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z

With Iraq descending into civil war, and the Taliban resurgent in Afghanistan, the military began recruiting civilian social scientists to help commanders understand the tribal forces they were trying to pacify. Books of The Times: ‘The Tender Soldier’ Examines the U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy 2013-08-27T20:58:37Z

"It may be tempting to think it doesn't matter what happens to a villager in Afghanistan or a child in Africa, but the temptation of isolation is deadly wrong." United 93 families dedicate Sept. 11 memorial 2011-09-11T02:50:00Z

Now there are more girls attending school in Afghanistan than at any time in its history. Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z

But it’s good to be reminded that these men and women — many of them formerly in the military in Iraq and Afghanistan — are well prepared, should they be needed. Review | A believably creepy villain plays on the fears of a city 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that nearly 30 percent of the more than 800,000 Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans treated in veterans’ hospitals and clinics are diagnosed with PTSD. We live in the Age of Trauma 2013-05-01T23:30:00Z

The premiere includes hackers and cyber insurgents in the mode of Julian Assange, as well as military drones that target terrorist suspects in Afghanistan. Television Review: Kiefer Sutherland Returns in ‘24: Live Another Day’ 2014-05-02T22:21:07Z

“Osama bin Laden is in Afghanistan right now,” he told me. "I know where Saddam Hussein is hiding": What I saw in Iraq right after the 2003 U.S. invasion 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

The documentary aims to tell a story of everyday life in Afghanistan. AFI Docs trains its lens on Afghanistan as festival kicks off 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

“The Kite Runner,” for instance, was not released in Afghanistan because of fears that it would inflame ethnic tensions. A Director?s Many Battles to Make Her Movie 2010-09-21T22:42:00Z

I filed a report with my command: Possible location of bin Laden in Afghanistan. "I know where Saddam Hussein is hiding": What I saw in Iraq right after the 2003 U.S. invasion 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

A couple of decades later, having roamed from Bahrain to Afghanistan to Germany, he is ready and able. ‘I Am Pilgrim,’ by Terry Hayes 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

The only instance we see of women in uniform comes in the Afghanistan film, in a segment on female American soldiers charged with reaching out to local women and girls. Television in Review: ?Women, War & Peace? on PBS - Review?Chelsea Settles,? an MTV Reality Show - Review?Reed Between the Lines? on BET - Review 2011-10-10T23:24:44Z

Some 200 silk-screened paintings from the last decade, reproducing at large scale declassified and redacted American documents relating to military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, hang salon-style across two cavernous galleries. A Museum Where Giant Art Has Room to Breathe 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

This was thanks both to a stint working in Afghanistan and the idiosyncrasies of the NHS, which, aside from its slowness, has been fantastic. The gift of a lifetime: how trans 'top surgery' changed my life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Clear Path was founded in 2000 and is based in Bainbridge Island, Wash. It operates in places including Afghanistan, Cambodia and Vietnam and along the border between Thailand and Myanmar. Most interesting man backs nonprofit group in Vt. 2013-05-30T01:45:08Z

The exhibition’s other conspicuous theme is the deadly violence that has plagued Afghanistan in recent years and drawn international media coverage. In Afghanistan, Being an Artist Is a Dangerous Job 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

I went to Malaysia, Pakistan and then Afghanistan, where I found work importing and exporting dried fruit. Free at last... and they all owe?their lives to Amnesty 2011-04-02T23:11:34Z

He began his second tour of duty in Afghanistan in October and was scheduled to return to the United States around June, two months before his enlistment was up, his family said. Fallen Marine 'was meant to serve others' 2012-03-10T02:52:00Z

As the series unfolded, usually with a book every year, interest in “end times” surged around the turn of the millennium, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, tsunamis and earthquakes. Tim LaHaye Dies at 90; Fundamentalist Leader’s Grisly Novels Sold Millions 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

"We went into Afghanistan and I got it," Hall said. Makers of 'American Sniper' press ahead to tell a tale of war and home 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Disguising herself as a man, she begins military training and eventually makes her way to the front lines of battle in Afghanistan. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

In late August, however, he received word that he would be going to Afghanistan again. A Bold Question Precedes the Proposal 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

Rudyard Kipling’s novel “Kim” popularized the term the “Great Game” to describe the 19th-century rivalry between Britain and Russia as they each vied for control of Afghanistan and its neighboring territories in Central Asia. In ‘The King’s Shadow,’ a Long Forgotten Spy Returns to the Spotlight 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

Six of the 11 presidential tickets in Afghanistan include at least one candidate viewed as a warlord, complicating American efforts to get the next administration to sign a long-term security deal. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2014-02-27T17:04:29Z

I have never made the claim that the Bush administration was resolved "to bring democracy through war in Afghanistan". Letters: Satanic view that equates democracies and dictatorships 2012-12-16T21:00:12Z

Aimed at preparing warriors for battle, the ceremony  has been used by Navajo soldiers before being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Navajos’ bad medicine 2012-10-08T18:15:00Z

He said critics of the war in Afghanistan were no longer referring to it as another Vietnam. 2010-01-16T10:27:00Z

"Their films can't show the culture of Afghanistan because it's all copied." Afghan film to premiere in Kabul after winning international awards 2012-10-04T13:35:41Z

On Nov. 10, 2008, Mr. Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize winner, set off to interview a Taliban commander in Afghanistan for a book he was writing about the failing American war effort. Books of The Times: Kidnapped Reporter and His Wife, a World Apart, Enduring Their Test 2010-12-26T22:14:24Z

In comparison, just over 48 million Americans watched Obama's State of the Union speech on television in January, while 40.7 million tuned in to hear him announce his Afghanistan strategy in December 2009. More than 32 million watch Obama oil spill address 2010-06-16T22:41:00Z

On July 7, 2008, insurgents detonated a huge suicide car bomb outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 54 people, including an Indian defense attaché. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

Veteran diplomat Robin Raphel never shunned assignments in dangerous places — Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq among them — countries where strict operational secrecy might well save your life. Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

It “tells the sad reality of many girls having to work and not go to school,” said Jolie, who has made several trips to Afghanistan. Directing allows Angelina Jolie to 'champion other people' 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Afghanistan is – and long has been, even while ruled by the ostentatiously abstemious Taliban – a narco-state: half its GDP is generated by drugs. Our Drugs War 2010-08-16T05:45:00Z

He said there hasn't been enough debate about military action in Afghanistan and Libya. How MSNBC is surviving after Olbermann 2011-06-19T23:16:04Z

I had not even fully unpacked my suitcase for what was supposed to be a two-week vacation with my family when President Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan started to go south. Perspective | The enduring moments of 2021, as told by Post reporters

We learn that Strike is the illegitimate son of a famous rock musician and his groupie girlfriend, that he joined the army after his mother’s death, and that he lost “half his leg” in Afghanistan. Books of The Times: In J. K. Rowling’s ‘Cuckoo’s Calling,’ Model Dies, but Why? 2013-07-17T18:56:06Z

The cost of a fighter or a day of presence in Afghanistan could go a long way to paying Rangers and building potties...heck, the military has some of those... A National Park’s Plea: Enjoy the Animals; Don’t Act Like One 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

She urged Obama to send in more troops to Afghanistan. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z

“What doggedly looks back is the last decade in Iraq and Afghanistan.” A Reckoning With the Wars He Has Known 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

During her tenure, Raphel also had to confront a civil war in Afghanistan that had been stoked by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies’ support for Islamist radicals fighting to oust the Soviets. Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

How and why did the Buddhas survive more than a dozen centuries of an Islamic Afghanistan, only to meet their end at a particular political moment in 2001? The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:08Z

But US wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East grind on, tentative peace proposals notwithstanding. Could coronavirus spell the end for superhero movies? 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

But he will sing for Afghanistan as long as he has music in him. An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

It’s November 2003, and the U.S. government has just awarded Blackwater its first contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Buck Ellison’s Great White Society 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

This is not to say that, by turning their attention to Afghanistan or Iraq, American reporters and journalists are on to a sure-fire success. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

Yet that same military has produced disasters or quagmires in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and elsewhere. Killing me softly with militarism 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

Other programs continue to tell the stories of recent veterans struggling to readjust after service in Iraq or Afghanistan, some with visible wounds and many others with psychological ones. Networks Salute Veterans Day With Contemporary Shows 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

He's the recipient of multiple Medals of Honor and an Afghanistan War hero, physically capable, extremely arrogant. The forging of a Black Captain America by battling supremacy in "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

Her narrative takes us from stateside training kennels to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as through time. Book review: ‘War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love’

She had been given to her husband when she was 12, as payment to settle a dispute – a practice in Afghanistan that goes by the fitting name of "baad". Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z

The killer fact was that of the billions of western dollars pumped into Afghanistan – a country with an estimated 55,000 amputees – not a single high-spec medical facility has been built. Rewind TV: Complicit; Walking Wounded: Return to the Frontline; Meet the Izzards – review 2013-02-23T22:45:01Z

But with a new baby and a new husband, she returns to duty, this time tracking bad guys in Afghanistan, for 12 hours a day, seven days a week. Anne Hathaway’s Solo Turn as a Fighter Pilot in ‘Grounded’ at the Public Theater 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

During the evacuation of Afghanistan last summer, I remember reading a story — a lot of us probably remember reading the story — of a baby born on an airplane. Perspective | Stories of birth in wartime are hopeful and heartbreaking 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

The Pentagon paid $47,000 to destroy 9,500 copies of the book, called "Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan - and the Path to Victory." Book on bin Laden raid coming out Sept. 11 2012-08-22T20:46:04Z

Marine and Afghanistan veteran who is manipulated into becoming a hitman after he returns from war. From Fonzie to Cousineau, Henry Winkler shares his 50-year acting secret: "Cool is authenticity" 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

With precision that sometimes tips over into didacticism, Mr. Sayles outlines connections between the war the United States waged in the Philippines and later interventions in Vietnam, Central America, Afghanistan and Iraq. | 'Amigo': The Cause Is Familiar, but the War Is Less So 2011-08-18T21:30:06Z

Earlier this week actress Angelina Jolie opened a girls' school in Afghanistan and announced plans to fund more by selling a jewelry line. Madonna sells abstract painting to fund girls' education 2013-04-03T15:55:26Z

Jonathan went off to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan while Rachel finished high school in the area and went to college at the University of Pennsylvania. On Love: Rachel Levick and Jonathan Corley

She served four tours of combat duty in the early and mid-2000s, two each in Afghanistan and Iraq. Retired Col. Kathy Spletstoser wasn’t able to stop Joint Chiefs vice chairman Gen. John Hyten from being confirmed. But she’s not done with him. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

That Medusa was necessary was symptomatic of what is wrong with policy in Afghanistan. 'Lions of Kandahar': the relentless cycle of the war in Afghanistan 2011-07-31T04:09:21Z

The Afghanistan National Institute of Music, founded by Sarmast in 2010, was once famous for its inclusiveness and emerged as the face of a new Afghanistan, performing to packed audiences in the U.S. and Europe. Afghan music school students flown out, headed to Portugal 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Free Market Capitalism defeated Soviet Communism in the bleak mountains of Afghanistan. Aundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Three 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z

If you ever find yourself in Afghanistan, be sure to drive an MRAP, a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle that can survive an IED. Serial recap – season two, episode six: five o'clock shadow 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Elliot Ackerman, who served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, is known for writing novels set at the burning edges of wars. In His New Book, a War Novelist Turns to More Intimate Battles 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Then, with wars in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan intensifying alongside other crises—drought, repression, terrorism—in Africa and Asia, more than a million people fled to Europe, and many of them to Lesvos. Following Europe’s Migrant Trail, Through the Instagrams of Refugees 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

In light of recent events, a late section closely recounting Biden’s decision to end the American war in Afghanistan is plenty absorbing. Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

With the Senate out of session, Reid was home in Nevada and McConnell just wrapped up a congressional trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan and had not planned to be in Washington this week, aides said. A jazzy all-American state dinner for Chinese prez 2011-01-20T13:46:05Z

Her sensitivity, inquisitiveness and depth of knowledge about Afghanistan made her an ideal interviewer. Books of The Times: ‘The Tender Soldier’ Examines the U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy 2013-08-27T20:58:37Z

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter used a “Meet the Press” interview with Mr. Monroe to announce that the United States would boycott the Olympics in Moscow that year to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Bill Monroe, ?Meet the Press? Host, Dies at 90 2011-02-17T21:40:07Z

Afghanistan was no more, no less at the “crossroads” of the Ancient World than the west Iranian territories. Art Review: Murky Exploration of an Iranian Past 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z

India and Afghanistan are considered to be close, and share good relations. US embassy cables: How India can help stabilise Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:33Z

So was the establishment of Greek colonies in far-flung corners of the Iranian world, such as the vast city uncovered by the French archaeologist Paul Bernard at Ai-Khanum in northern Afghanistan. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z

She concluded that America has nothing to offer Afghanistan except more war and "bikini waxes". Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z

Pitt’s latest movie War Machine, a satirical look at the US war in Afghanistan, is due for release on 26 May. Brad Pitt speaks about his divorce from Angelina Jolie and his heavy drinking 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

For Mr. Wade, genetic differences help explain the failure of the United States occupations in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Nicholas Wade’s ‘A Troublesome Inheritance’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Words in the Dust is a subtle, nuanced story, which shows a real understanding for family life in Afghanistan, and a respect for the people and their suffering. Elizabeth Laird's top 10 books about tough stuff from out there 2012-05-17T08:00:00Z

KABUL, Afghanistan — Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Afghan boys from nominated film to walk red carpet 2013-02-07T17:30:11Z

She met several times in Afghanistan with various factions and with the Taliban’s leadership. Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Jensen’s novel begins by getting to know the members of a Danish platoon stationed in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. A Different View of the Afghan War Yields the Same Grim Truth 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

Devil To Pay, which is to be released in July, is set in London and Afghanistan and centres on a fictional ex-soldier called Nick Kane. 2010-01-22T16:14:00Z

He finished his university degree, found a desk job at Radio Afghanistan and used that to get behind the microphone and record songs. An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

Presumably the colonel knows about the death of Oleg’s brother in Afghanistan, but like Gabriel, he was noticeably unsympathetic. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 4: Working Through the Kinks 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

The idiosyncratic Seattle-based writer David Shields was startled as he followed the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through the New York Times’ visual representation. “My little war-porn addiction”: David Shields on how the New York Times made the Iraq and Afghanistan wars look “really cool, really glamorous, really bloodless” 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Twice I’ve done fund-raisers where I sell lapis I already own and 100 percent of profits went to Women For Women in Afghanistan,” Ms. Ivy said a on a recent phone call. Gems Made in the U.S.A. 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

As the table saw drones on, I discover that Afghanistan is still on my mind, but so many of those memories, too, are cloudy. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Apparently it’s not too early to take a “M*A*S*H” approach to Afghanistan. The 50 TV Shows You Need to Watch This Winter 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Overall, the United States has poured some $104 billion into reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, and Sopko is responsible for monitoring how effectively the money is spent.  UN agency lax over Afghan police fund misspent millions-watchdog 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Her map of Afghanistan, made from US dollars carefully stitched together, is a subtle comment on American imperialism. Art of maps 2010-04-30T09:48:00Z

In 2015, the straits between Turkey and Lesvos are again traversed by refugees—this time from Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia. A Tragedy Unfolds on Lesvos 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

But in its hometown, Peshawar, a Pakistani provincial capital near the Afghanistan border, Khumariyaan’s music holds a symbolic charge. Khumariyaan Performed at Asia Society on Sunday 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Watching Mehran, age six, play football at her school in Kabul, you would think that being a girl in Afghanistan wasn’t so bad at all. The Afghan girls raised as boys 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

He enrolled in art classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, read the newspapers religiously and became mesmerized by photos of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Vets preserve memories of war with their own art 2012-11-10T17:08:10Z

She has reported nationally from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Mexico and Nepal, among other countries. Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Jeffrey Moran 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

This infamous declaration about the news media on Feb. 17 was the tweet equivalent of that 11-ton bomb the military dropped on Afghanistan a few months ago. Analysis | Your A-to-Z guide to the media mayhem during President Trump’s first six months in office 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

She even cooked for the troops in Afghanistan last Thanksgiving. The Empress Is In: Amy Sacco Holds Court at Another New York Nightspot 2012-06-13T21:15:33Z

"If you wanted a literal parallel, you'd set it in Afghanistan or something like that, but for me it's a more general point about unquestioning cultural superiority." Kevin Macdonald: "I didn't understand Hollywood" 2011-03-17T21:30:00Z

MusiCorps, the program, uses conservatory-level music training to help wounded war veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan as part of their recovery. When Warriors Pick Up Guitars 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

This year, 71 countries, from Afghanistan to Vietnam, are submitting feature-length films. Why the Oscars still matter 2013-01-09T19:03:24Z

Land shipments account for about two thirds of the alliance's cargo into Afghanistan. Pakistanis protest at U.S. consulate 2011-11-27T13:15:00Z

He left Afghanistan in 1992, claiming to have severed all ties with al-Qaeda, and lived in Germany and, briefly, Canada. Blame game 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

To understand it, think of the drone strike that killed 10 innocent civilians as the U.S. military pulled out of Afghanistan last year. Everyone thinks "Stranger Things" Season 4 is about trauma. It’s not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Army platoon in Afghanistan's remote and dangerous Korengal Valley, was nominated for an Academy Award. Sebastian Junger reflects on friendship, war and peace 2011-06-09T22:27:00Z

“Part of our commitment is to promote musical diversity in Afghanistan.” Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z

Aside from their potential economic value, no obvious benefits derived from the existence of the Bamiyan Buddhas: as Omar rightly noted "In Afghanistan there are no Buddhists to worship the statues." The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z

There are shades of The Moonstone about its McGuffin – a jewel-studded knife called "The Heart of Afghanistan", with the power to determine who controls the country. Thrillers: John O'Connell's choice – reviews 2012-08-10T21:55:07Z

At the institute, more than 90 girls and young women, wearing headscarves and long black coats, are trained in coding and software development, a profession seen by some in conservative Afghanistan as unsuitable for women. Afghan girl coders design games to fight opium and inequality 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

In an effort to understand how the past informs the present, he muses on his family’s connection with historic events, from his great-great-great-grandfather’s exile from Poland to his soldier brother’s wounding in Afghanistan. ‘Grasshopper Jungle,’ by Andrew Smith

But animation really is the ideal form for this nonfiction account of one refugee’s flight from Afghanistan in the early 1990s. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

At the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, most of the classrooms are empty. Under Taliban, thriving Afghan music scene heads to silence 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Renner's character is a veteran of the Afghanistan war and, unlike Jason Bourne, a willing recruit to the shady underworld of covert operations. Bourne Legacy is 'a math problem' 2012-08-07T01:32:02Z

Director Greg Barker's film chronicles bin Laden's rise to power during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and his call for jihad against the United States in the 1990s. Seen and heard at Sundance 2013-01-21T04:01:04Z

“A Door in the Earth” tells a convincing story of misplaced do-gooding from across the political spectrum, and the passages that Waldman includes from “Mother Afghanistan” seem depressingly realistic. A Novel Set in Afghanistan Challenges the Myth of the Good Occupier 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

The best documentary award went to Janus Metz for Armadillo, a film that follows Danish soldiers on their first posting to Afghanistan. London Film Festival: British director Clio Barnard wins best newcomer 2010-10-27T21:30:00Z

Embassy in Qatar and the two worked to secure paperwork for the girls’ exit from Afghanistan. Lawyer for Afghan girls’ robotics team tells Oklahoma woman to stop taking credit for rescue 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Was achieving a marginally less bad outcome in Afghanistan worth the expense, administration officials wondered? Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran – review 2012-07-06T10:00:02Z

One particular coup: Michael Moorcock’s intense “Kabul” tracks a ragtag band of soldiers and survivalists in a devastated near-future Afghanistan. Review | Something to celebrate: Four literary gems that have survived the vagaries of publishing 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

The weather’s getting warmer in Afghanistan and the war there is heating up again. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

To get a better understanding, she traveled to Albania, Mexico and Afghanistan, among other places. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Judith Matloff on Why Mountains Attract War 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Soldiers wounded in Afghanistan were among those treated here. Abandoned Budapest hospital offers glimpse into Soviet past 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Her character was a seamstress hiding her interpreter brother from the Taliban during a major withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Marjan Neshat on Her ‘Kind of Miraculous Season’ Onstage 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

It’s a phenomenon almost unheard of in such wars, but so common in Afghanistan these days that it’s gotten its own label: “green-on-blue violence.” Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

But Britain's Kabul Ambassador William Patey wrote on his official Twitter feed that "if elements of the Taliban think that in 2015 they can take control of Afghanistan they will be in for a shock." Taliban "poised to retake Afghanistan" after NATO pullout 2012-02-01T13:22:02Z

Rowe visits the shop, hears the harrowing stories of those who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and beyond, and gathers the local community to help renovate its headquarters and celebrate its vets. Can Facebook Watch take on Netflix? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Clooney acknowledged a "misery fatigue" for Americans amid the war in Afghanistan and crises in Syria, Somalia and elsewhere as he tries to raise awareness about the suffering in South Sudan. Clooney highlights Sudanese humanitarian crisis 2012-03-14T15:30:21Z

On Afghanistan, the Foreign Secretary cited Indian interests and criticized Pakistani attempts to exclude New Delhi from regional discussions. US embassy cables: Americans reassure India over Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:36Z

Along with the catastrophe currently unfolding in Afghanistan, it remains one of the two proxy wars currently being fought by India and Pakistan for control of Himalayan central Asia. Curfewed Night 2010-06-19T23:10:00Z

Another Columbia class in the spring will be devoted solely to Mr. Kushner, whose subsequent body of work includes “Homebody/Kabul,” set in Afghanistan, and the musical “Caroline, Or Change.” ?Angels in America? Earns Place in Pantheon 2010-10-24T23:06:00Z

In every house in Afghanistan, there is cable or satellite TV and this changes every house into a cinema. Garlanded Afghan film Buzkashi Boys comes home for premiere 2012-10-04T17:37:13Z

Reading about Afghanistan made me feel like being back at home. Malala Yousafzai: By the Book 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

The next time we met was in Afghanistan, in October, 2010. A Book That Captures the Singular Life of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

A Mauritanian by birth, he joined al-Qaeda in 1991 when the group was fighting Afghanistan’s communist government. Blame game 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

So grab a world map or globe and try to locate all the countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Rio Olympics offers a break from typical summer sports 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

"Scared isn't the right word, but you could feel things escalate," says Gonzales, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. On their third day at work, congressional freshmen went through disorientation 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

In their eyes, their friends and colleagues are being slaughtered in Afghanistan with help from the Reagan administration. ‘The Americans’ Returns to FX With Season 3 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

I think about the 51 percent of all those refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and elsewhere who were children, many separated from their parents and alone on Planet Earth. Crimes against the future: How it seems like there will be eternal wartime in America 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Some of those scenes evoke the ’s demolition of statues of Buddha in Afghanistan in 2001, and Ms. Weisz, British born and educated at Cambridge, said such parallels were deliberate. Film: Hypatia: Martyr to Christian Zealots 2010-05-22T07:01:00Z

She was the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat and was deployed multiple times in the Middle East and Afghanistan before retiring in 2010. Sen Martha McSally of Arizona has a book coming out next May 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

“People were still very stereotypical about terrorists and Afghanistan.” They Fled Afghanistan for America. Now They Feed the Newest Arrivals. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

For Andy Davis, 29, a former Army staff sergeant who served two tours in Afghanistan and one in Iraq, that meant enlisting two other Iraq War veterans and his wife. War Zone Traumas, Restaged at Home by Jennifer Karady 2010-05-05T23:06:00Z

Philip and Elizabeth are attracted to Kimberly because her father heads an elite CIA group that helps mujahideen rebels fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. 'The Americans' recap: Teen party girl could be a KGB asset 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Jonathan Wright A soldier says, "This isn't Hollywood, this is Afghanistan," but the producers of this new documentary series following a US bomb-disposal platoon are clearly in the entertainment business. TV highlights 11/03/13 2013-03-11T08:00:07Z

She sings about repression of women, her hopes for a peaceful Afghanistan and the misery she says she experienced as a small child living in neighboring Iran. First female rapper debuts in Afghanistan 2012-10-09T12:17:09Z

Before a view of the Acropolis, Marzia raises her arms triumphantly in her film, a letter home to Afghanistan, where she was unable to attend school. The Little Tramp and the Refugees Who Loved, Then Loathed Him 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

In one celebrated case of secrecy, The New York Times withheld news that reporter David Rohde was kidnapped while trying to make contact with a Taliban commander in Afghanistan. Newsman's disappearance largely kept secret 2012-12-18T23:21:08Z

Harry was twice deployed to Afghanistan while serving as an army officer for 10 years, but he said his mental health concerns were not related to the conflict. Prince Harry sought counselling after 'total chaos' following mother's death 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

Beltway readers will not learn much new here about matters like the Obama administration’s handling of the war in Afghanistan or its counterterrorism policies. Hillary Clinton’s Book ‘Hard Choices’ Portrays a Tested Policy Wonk 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

It is also a play on Moore’s scathing 2004 “Fahrenheit 9/11” about the Sept. 11 2001 attacks on New York and Washington D.C. and the subsequent U.S. led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Michael Moore hopes his film is 'beginning of the end' for Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Everything that needs to be said about my own experience in Afghanistan has already been said. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

"One Million Steps" is shorter than some of West's other books, including "No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah" and "The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan." A gripping 'One Million Steps' examines Marines in Afghanistan 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

While in the Air Force, she was stationed in Afghanistan. When women stop coloring their gray hair: “I felt naked. I felt scared. I felt excited. I felt... 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

It all seems suddenly to flash before my eyes — only the dust in Afghanistan was chalkier and finer than the dust from this walnut slab, which is old, but not Afghanistan old. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

She supports President Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan but was stunned by the rapid collapse of the country. Barbara Lee doesn’t feel vindicated for voting against Afghan war: ‘I almost wish ... I had been wrong’ 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

In the most recent series, Malone was invited to the RMB Chivenor military base in north Devon, where the troops were about to deploy for a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan. Malone takes Choir to the States 2012-07-23T13:44:39Z

From Archimedes and Leonardo to the physicists of the Manhattan project, Vietnam's electronic battlefield and the computer-controlled drones over Afghanistan, the lineage is well known. Mind Wars by Jonathan D Moreno – review 2012-06-01T21:55:07Z

Sellars relates this Handelian gloss on the ancient Greek tragedy to the psychological toll sustained by the participants in war, whether those wars happen to be in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam or wherever. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z

Ms. Gallop said 19,000 users have signed up for invitations, with half the page views coming from countries like China, Iraq and Afghanistan. Cindy Gallop’s Online Effort to Promote ‘Real,’ Not Porn-Fed, Sex 2012-09-08T02:29:13Z

But Richard Rowley’s “Dirty Wars” is even more global in its focus, examining clandestine American military operations in places like Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia. The Carpetbagger: Starring a (Reluctant) Journalist 2014-02-25T20:25:00Z

It's not about the Afghan war, it's not about the Bush administration's blunders in Afghanistan ... Documentary on Afghan war attempts to show what soldiers experience 2010-07-07T20:35:00Z

"Afghanistan is a crazy and complicated place, and I'm no military expert," he told a Danish newspaper. In the firing line: A grunt's eye view of war 2011-04-04T20:31:01Z

They have projects afoot in Italy, China, Spain, Afghanistan and in far-flung parts of the U.S. A model exhibition by Seattle Architecture Foundation 2011-07-01T23:04:38Z

Airing on HBO a little more than a year after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, “Escape From Kabul” presents a detailed account of the chaotic evacuation at the Kabul airport in August 2021. ‘Escape From Kabul’ Review: Evacuation in Recap 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have become costly distractions, and the men and women who fight them often return to an isolated realm of PTSD, wrecked bodies and ruined families. 'Theater of War' evokes eternal truths of battlefield in reading by David Strathairn, Alfred Molina and Heather Goldenhersh 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The director listens while his friend, known in the film as Amin, remembers his life as a refugee from Afghanistan, bouncing from country to country as he looked for safe harbor. New Fall Movies 2021: Here Are More Than 125 Coming Soon 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

In a well-constructed programme, Our Drugs War encapsulated the pointlessness of our involvement in Afghanistan. TV review: Death in the Med, Our Drug War and In their Own Words 2010-08-17T07:00:00Z

I’m here in Chicago, 7,000 miles and 15 years away from Jalalabad, a desolate town in southwestern Afghanistan. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

The audience is harangued – as if we were army recruits – on Afghanistan's inhospitable terrain, its death-trap mountains and deserts. The Great Game: Afghanistan 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

But for the last several months Colonel Richardson, 45, has been studying Pashto in preparation for his February deployment to Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, where he will work with Afghan security forces. Faithful to Two Worlds: The Marines and the Artistic Life 2010-12-19T22:58:16Z

In the current affairs category, AJE was recognized for its report on dangers facing women in Afghanistan and TV Globo for a documentary on civilian victims of Syria's civil war. Al Jazeera English, TV Globo lead Int'l Emmy news nominees 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Leal, a retired gunnery sergeant who served for 22 years, including in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq, said he posted a sign on his own lawn. Fireworks aren't cause for celebration for veterans and gun violence survivors 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Their characters come from many countries — Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq and Iran, for starters. ‘The Jungle’ Review: Migrants’ Heartbreaking Search for Home in Calais 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Years spent together, as Broadwell had with Petraeus in Afghanistan, can make the biographer's experience intensely personal, whether sexual or not. Petraeus affair and the role of biographers 2012-11-14T18:16:03Z

He also directed Afghanistan torture movie "Taxi to the Dark Side," which won the Academy Award for best documentary. Matt Damon to narrate Lance Armstrong documentary 2010-10-20T01:09:00Z

Replacing the comedy of the original with grime and violence, the movie opens with a mass shooting as a meth-addled Afghanistan veteran mows down a group of innocent, multiracial residents. ‘Measure for Measure’ Review: Rising by Sin in Melbourne 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

He refused to give up any more names, even when Oleg’s partner mentioned their ability to affect his son’s fate in Afghanistan. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 5 Recap: Whole Lotta Shakin’ 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

It is the first leg of a 5,000-mile journey, one that is rich in symbolism as a new migration crisis looms in Europe following the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. Giant Puppet Ruffles Some Feathers on a Long Walk Through Greece 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

If Dayton was Holbrooke’s apex, Afghanistan proved to be his nadir. Searching for Richard Holbrooke 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

The Scots have cried foul at a new BBC sitcom set on the battlefields of Afghanistan – because it plagiarises the Beeb's own Gary: Tank Commander, a popular hit north of the border. Les Dawson set for a posthumous return, and an abundance of outrage 2013-02-27T11:44:08Z

"The pieces, and their enormous range, bear testament to the incredibly rich cultural history of Afghanistan," said Colin Crokin, UK consul general in Afghanistan, at the handover ceremony for the 843 meticulously catalogued items. Treasures returned to Afghan museum 2012-08-05T15:44:58Z

Matt persuades his Grandpa to visit Aman and his mother and during the visit he hears all about the escape to England and about how frightening and dangerous it was for them in Afghanistan. Shadow by Michael Morpurgo - review 2011-08-23T08:00:00Z

And Wallace never asked Trump about his inaction on intelligence reports that Russian operatives offered bounties to insurgents in Afghanistan to kill American soldiers stationed there. Chris Wallace is uniquely qualified to interview Trump — and uniquely independent at Fox News 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Hekmati, a 28-year-old of Iranian descent born in the state of Arizona, was arrested in December and Iran's Intelligence Ministry accused him of receiving training at U.S. bases in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq. Iran dismisses execution sentence on U.S.-Iranian national 2012-03-05T13:18:06Z

After working for bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 1990s, Jandal moved back to Yemen, where he was arrested by authorities in connection with the bombing of the USS Cole in October 2000. The Oath: A Tale of Two Al-Qaeda Operatives 2010-02-20T04:35:00Z

Moore has been tearing into Obama for almost two years now, especially on Afghanistan, Iraq and corporate malfeasance. Matt Damon disappointed in Obama: "I no longer hope for audacity" 2011-03-03T23:30:00Z

He’s also finishing “Rock the Kasbah,” a comedy he’s directed with Bill Murray as a rock manager stranded in Afghanistan. Barry Levinson sings a new tune as ‘Diner’ heads to the stage 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

A former paratrooper who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan has co-written a film exposing the mental wounds and acute desolation endured by many soldiers returning home to civilian life. War veterans' mental sufferings dramatised in ex-para's movie 2011-03-20T00:05:50Z

More than two-thirds of Chicago and suburban voters said the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan — the 's main focus — has been at least "somewhat successful." Poll: Global policy a hit at home 2012-05-18T06:05:00Z

Days later, the girls met with that government’s ambassador to Afghanistan “in a secure location,” AlHashmi said. Lawyer for Afghan girls’ robotics team tells Oklahoma woman to stop taking credit for rescue 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Northwest Indiana native James Butz joined the armed forces because he wanted to help others, and his aunt said the Army medic was doing just that when he was killed recently in Afghanistan. Indiana soldier killed in Afghanistan 2011-10-01T19:34:00Z

He repeated his criticism of Obama's China policy and the pace of the pullout of U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan. GOP rivals debate U.S. foreign relations 2011-11-13T05:59:00Z

They are now reporting on Afghanistan from Turkey. Journalists face danger on Kabul streets and a new question: How to cover Afghanistan now? 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

The withdrawal from Afghanistan was Biden keeping a clear campaign promise. Perspective | The enduring moments of 2021, as told by Post reporters

We spent days, nights, weeks, and months chatting, and they told me about the history of Afghanistan and Pashtun culture and history. Is "Jirga" a white savior movie about Afghanistan? "We have a lot to feel guilty about" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z