Afghanistan

Kabul-based journalist Matthieu Aikins talks about the disputed Afghan election, US-backed militias committing war crimes, and the future of the country after the US military drawdown.

Relentlessly, the fighting continues.

Three separate systems are used to track the arms sent to Afghanistan, but they are riddled with errors and not linked.

Washington ignored plentiful warnings that the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars would fail to convince Afghans to embrace protein-rich soy products.

It is unclear how long the United States and Canada intend to keep selling the myth of Omar Khadr, a Canadian arrested at age 15 in Afghanistan, as an …

Neoliberal governments invoke phrases like “collateral damage” or “military necessity” to absolve them of the horrors they inflict. We need to develop a new political language.

A campaign to end the ban on transgender people in the military is gaining steam, but trans and gender-nonconforming people are opposing it in favor of getting rid of …

Today, another major work from Michael Hastings is upon us: “The Last Magazine,” a posthumous novel and scathing satire of the corporate news media based on Hastings' time at …

Dick Cheney, instead of being indicted as a war criminal, sneeringly claims to anyone who asks him that “enhanced interrogations” have been and still are absolutely necessary to keep …

Here are five straightforward lessons that could be drawn from that last half century of every kind of American warfare.