Afghans Hedge Bets Amid Mixed Messages From U.S.
After a long hiatus, the Afghan and U.S. governments this week reopened talks on a strategic partnership that will determine how many American troops stay in Afghanistan past the end of the NATO...
View ArticleSnowstorms Take A Toll In Afghan Refugee Camps
Kabul's fourth snowstorm in the past month brought children out to play across the city, including those in the Charahi Qambar refugee camp in the western part of the capital.Many of the children in...
View ArticleRemembering 'Intrepid Storyteller' Anthony Shadid
I met Anthony Shadid on a ruined airstrip in western Afghanistan in the winter of 2001-'02. He was sporting a beard and longer hair in those days that made him look a little like a crusading Arab...
View ArticleArmy Moves To Act Fast On Battlefield Brain Injuries
Nineteen-year-old Army Pvt. Cody Dollman has a look in his eyes that makes you think he probably used to fight much bigger kids on the playground back home in Wichita, Kan. He says he always wanted to...
View ArticleU.S. Apology Fails To Stop Afghan Riots
President Obama apologized in a letter and Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm.But that was not enough to keep Afghans from protesting violently for a third day following word that several...
View ArticleAfter Quran Burnings, U.S. To Review Afghan Mission
The deadly violence in Afghanistan over the burning of Qurans by the U.S. military has brought the American-led NATO mission to a crossroads. Among the dead have been four Americans — two of them by an...
View ArticleFor Afghan Policewomen, Sex Abuse Is A Job Hazard
The image of Afghan women wearing police and army uniforms is meant to inspire pride and hope for a future where the rights of women will be protected in Afghanistan.So why would female police officers...
View ArticleWill Massacre In Kandahar Be A Policy Tipping Point?
Transcript RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin.In Afghanistan, the massacre of 16 unarmed Afghan civilians, allegedly by a U.S. service member, is the latest...
View ArticleAfghan Farmer Lost 11 Relatives In Shooting Rampage
Afghans say they're so inured to civilians killed in wars that they bury their dead and move on. That's not so easy for Muhammad Wazir. He lost his mother, his wife, a sister-in-law, a brother, a...
View ArticleDreams Of A Mining Future On Hold In Afghanistan
Afghanistan faces the daunting prospect of a drastic reduction in foreign aid, which currently makes up about 90 percent of the country's revenue. Some have seen an economic life raft in geological...
View ArticleTaliban Claims Responsibility For Afghan Attacks
Transcript LYNN NEARY, HOST: What the Taliban are calling the start of their spring offensive kept security forces across Afghanistan fighting throughout Sunday and into this morning. Officials say 36...
View ArticleFacing Death, Afghan Girl Runs To U.S. Military
In a remote part of Afghanistan early last year, a girl was sentenced to death. Her crime was possession of a cellphone. Her executioners were to be her brothers. They suspected her of talking on the...
View ArticleFor Afghan Soldiers, A Battle For Respect
Last month, the Taliban carried out their largest coordinated attack across Afghanistan, including three sites inside the capital Kabul. It took an 18-hour gunfight to end the assault.But even as they...
View ArticleAfghan Goal: Toning Down The Radical Preachers
The ministry that governs religious affairs in Afghanistan has announced what some are calling a "three strikes" policy.It's a warning directed at Muslim clerics, or imams, accused of inciting violence...
View ArticleAfghan Public Protection Force Profile
Nearly two years ago, Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered that gun-toting private security companies in his country be brought under state control. But the Afghan force to replace the foreign-funded...
View ArticleA New Generation Of Vets Faces Challenges At Home
Homeless veterans of the Vietnam War have been a face of American poverty for decades, and now some veterans of a younger generation are dealing with the same difficult issues."I had my apartment up...
View ArticleDoing It To Win: Veterans Raise Bar At Paralympics
On a placid summer morning last month, before the Virginia heat could hit them, a former U.S. Marine and his partner lifted their rowing scull into the glassy water of the Rivanna River, near...
View ArticleA Year After War Wound, American Wins Paralympics
The first thing you need to know about Navy Lt. Brad Snyder is that he's a bit intense.If you go to the U.S. Naval Academy, swim competitively, and make the cut for the Navy's elite bomb-disposal...
View ArticleMilitary Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia
Both presidential campaigns are focusing on just a few swing states, and the relatively few remaining undecided voters. One of those states is Virginia, where a key swing constituency is military...
View ArticleVet Walks On New Legs, With A Little Help From Mom
On furlough from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center this summer, 21-year-old Nick Staback lounges on his parents' back porch in Scranton, Pa., taking potshots at sparrows with a replica...
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