Independent panel calls for troops, equipment to keep Canadian troops in...
A Canadian independent blue-ribbon panel sets two conditions if Canadian combat troops are to stay in Afghanistan past February 2009. First, other ISAF countries have to send 1,000 combat troops to...
View ArticleRifts within the Taliban
Syed Saleem Shahzad of Asia Times reports some striking news in the development of the Taliban insurgency, which could point to increasing internal rifts. He cites anonymous Taliban sources who claim...
View ArticleNever mind, Ashdown
Lord Paddy Ashdown has withdrawn his name from consideration as the UN envoy to Afghanistan, after President Hamid Karzai and other officials expressed opposition last week, concerned about the extent...
View ArticleElections in Afghanistan could be problematic
As talk swirls over whether Zalmay Khalilzad will run for Afghan president and Karzai attempts to project his authority to prepare for a possible re-election bid, a U.S. Army report finds cause for...
View ArticleAfghanistan could fail as a state
A new independent study by retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones and former U.N. Ambassador Thomas Pickering has a dire warning for Afghanistan, according to The Associated Press which obtained an...
View ArticleEradicating opium through development
More disconcerting news coming out of an international Afghanistan donors conference in Tokyo this week. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime issued its annual winter survey of poppy planting patterns and...
View ArticleNot dead, just dormant...
Thanks for bearing with us... It's been a while since I posted here, and over a month since Bipasha Ray (who did a truly stellar job of holding down the fort in my absence) stopped posting. Since...
View ArticleProject on Afghanistan in its Regional and Multilateral Dimensions
The Century Foundation continues to look at Afghanistan with an initiative examining ways in which the international community may effectively take greater collective responsibility for assisting...
View ArticleNegotiating with the Taliban: Issues and Prospects
By Antonio Giustozzi, The Century Foundation, 6/21/2010 Download the report here. The resilience of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan over the past half-dozen years has dispelled illusions of a...
View ArticleSalvaging Afghanistan
Salvaging Afghanistan by TCF Senior Fellow Morton Abramowitz The charge of hand-wringing is again heard in the land, mostly from our friends on the Right. Have any doubt about our war in Afghanistan...
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