Taliban

Taliban

Capital Gains Tax

by Sabawoon Samim,

From interviews with former Taliban fighters conducted in Kabul and published by the Afghanistan Analysts Network in February. Translated from the Pashto. Leaving the Taliban’s friendly environment was difficult. There…

Mobbed Up

by Andrew Cockburn,

How America boosts the Afghan opium trade

Kandahar’s Mystery Executions

by Anand Gopal,

Are the Afghan police using torture to achieve peace?

Dissociated Press

by Mujib Mashal, on January 9, 2014

Headline news under the Taliban

The Pious Spy

by Mujib Mashal,

A Taliban intelligence chief’s death and resurrection

Proxy Syndrome

by Mujib Mashal, on December 18, 2013

Afghanistan fights fire with fire in its war against the Taliban

Did a Top Taliban Leader Fake His Own Death?

by Harper’s Magazine, on December 16, 2013

Harper’s Magazine Reporter Concludes that Taliban Intelligence Chief Qari Ahmadullah Is Still Alive

A vengeful affair

Translated by Ryann Liebenthal,

One hellish choice

by Karen Woo,

The Master of Spin Boldak

by Matthieu Aikins,

Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-trafficking border police

The War We Can’t Win

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

By Andrew J. Bacevich, in the August 15 issue of Commonweal. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University and the author, most recently, of The Limits of…

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