Onscene in Afghanistan: Reconstruction Woes
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In the first installment of his Afghanistan diary, NEWSWEEK'S Dan Ephron discovers that the country's post-Taliban problems are shaped by whether they are inside or outside the capital
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SANGIN, Afghanistan  - The message couldn't have been clearer.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- Three years after the US invasion, Paktia Province and the rest of southeastern Afghanistan illustrate the mixed results of an intervention that ousted the Taliban regime but has yet to capture Osama bin Laden or forge a stable, centralized state to keep out terrorists for good.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three years after the hardline Taliban militia were swept from power in Afghanistan, their
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- This month, two Afghan medical workers drove off into the hazy blue mountains that rise above this dusty provincial capital. They have not been seen since.
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NAIK NAM, Afghanistan -- Saher Gul was chalking a long division lesson on the blackboard of his two-room village school. Twenty-five boys, ages 9 to 19, were sitting cross-legged on the dirt floor. Suddenly the earthen walls and ceiling exploded and collapsed, smothering the class in a mountain of rubble.
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Why  the Taleban have been able to stage a comeback in Afghanistan, by Paul Danahar with Bilal Sarwary.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- It's 11 a.m., and traffic on Taru Buz Khan Street is nearly jammed in both directions, crawling past a row of computer shops with stacks of Dell boxes in the front windows.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  -- Western pop videos, India's Bollywood movies and even Charlton Heston's &quot;The Ten Commandments&quot; have Afghanistan's fledgling cable TV stations in hot water.
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Comment is free: Seumas Milne: The crisis of the Afghan occupation is a reminder of its fraudulent claims, growing cost in blood, and certainty of failure
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- In the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, where his $100 million empire is based, inquiries about Haji Bashir Noorzai elicit an anxious frown, a shrug or the vague explanation that he left years ago.
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Counterinsurgency efforts focus on better grasping and meeting local needs.
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The ethnic divisions evident in the presidential vote raise a warning sign for parliamentary elections scheduled for next spring. Hamid Karzaiâs inauguration as Afghanistanâs first democratically elected president seems a foregone conclusion.
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Afghanistan will undergo the first presidential elections in the country&#39;s history on October 9, 2004. As if surprised by the fact that Afghans could want a voice in their
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Afghanistan risks turning into a failed state and becoming a forgotten war, a US study says.
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The U.S.-led coalition is spending hundreds of millions of dollars constructing roads, bridges and buildings across Afghanistan. For the troops on the ground, it can be a frustrating and delicate job.
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SHEIKHABAD, Afghanistan -- In a small, sunlit parlor last week, 20 little girls seated on rush mats sketched a flower drawn on the blackboard. In a darker interior room, 15 slightly older girls memorized passages from the Koran, reciting aloud. Upstairs was a class of teenage girls, hidden from public view.