Second-Guessing Actions in Afghanistan
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Soon after arriving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Oct. 1, 2001, Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers raised doubts about the war plan -- days from execution -- to topple the Taliban government in Afghanistan. Gen. Tommy R. Franks, then chief of U.S. Central Command, planned a single thrust toward the Afghan capital from the north.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Since the US military expelled the Taliban three years ago, it has battled the regime's diehard fighters in the barren mountains and dusty wastes of southern Afghanistan. Now the United States is extending an olive branch to moderate elements of its shadowy foe.
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SANGIN, Afghanistan  - The message couldn't have been clearer.
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BRUSSELS, May 21 (IPS) - When archive material showing Osama bin Laden  hiding in an underground fortress is aired  on Western news  bulletins, the perception that Afghanistan is a lawless periphery  is  reinforced.
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Territory in Afghanistan taken in battle by British troops may have to be retaken, the Nato commander warns.
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ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan - Afghan civilians piled belongings onto trucks yesterday and fled two villages infiltrated by hundreds of Taliban militants. US, Canadian, and Afghan troops had about 250 of the insurgents surrounded.
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American forces have been confounded by insurgents who have slipped away only to fight another day.
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PRAGUE, Dec 27 (IPS) - Poland has woken up to the possibility that its  troops in Afghanistan were involved in a war crime against  defenceless civilians.
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Troops of Pakistani para-military force check Afghan refugee voters before they enter in polling station to vote in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election at Jallozai camp near Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A day before Afghanistan's historic presidential election, Captain Jacob Larkowich's US infantry company took up positions on a hilltop next to the Intercontinental Hotel, looking out over the dusty capital for puffs of smoke and bracing to rush to the scene of any bombing.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban movement suffered a serious psychological and military setback after failing to disrupt Afghanistan's presidential election last month, but the radical Islamic militia still poses a formidable military threat and one faction has begun carrying out daring, Al Qaeda-style urban terrorist attacks, say Afghan and foreign analysts.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The room was carpeted and cozy, warm from the wood stove and filled with the chatter of children. But the tales their mothers and older sisters told recently, speaking hesitantly even in the safety of a guarded private shelter, were bone-chilling.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- As the US Black Hawk helicopter skimmed low over the desert, the signs of approaching spring were everywhere: melting frost in the hollows, the first shoots of green in the nearby fields, shrinking snowcaps on distant peaks.
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Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on the Pentagon's plan to withdraw troops from stations abroad.
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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.
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The election for president in Afghanistan may have brought us one small step closer to worldwide democracy. At least the people there left no doubt that they wanted to vote.
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QALAT, Afghanistan -- Malik Ali Mahmad and his small security team were on high alert last Tuesday night. They had recently been sent to establish a government outpost in an isolated, Taliban-plagued district, Khaki Afghan, and there were rumors that the Islamic militia was planning a retaliatory raid.