War & golf: a view of Afghanistan from the first tee
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Golfers who tee-off at the Kabul Golf Course don't have to worry about their balls landing in the traditional golf hazards of sand bunkers and ponds.
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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 - Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election began Saturday, with people across this ethnically diverse land casting the first ballots in an improbable experiment with democracy.    After 25 years of near constant war - and under a Taliban threat of ruinous violence - voters descended on bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques, and bullet-pocked hospitals to choose their leader for the first time in their history...
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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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MAYBE itâs the inherent difficulty of autumnal golf in the British Isles. Maybe itâs the eternal unpredictability of the Irish weather.
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The Nato summit in Riga this week will be dominated by the war it is waging against the Taleban in Afghanistan and by the concept that Nato should increasingly play a global role, says Paul Reynolds
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The story begins with one of my buddies who survived basic going on to kill interesting people in interesting places. Most of my group managed to go from Texas to Korea to work on flight lines and for more training. Somewhere along the way, someone managed to wander far off the beaten path. He ended up in Morocco and found himself a beautiful woman to marry for a few years and spent most of his time being chased by the MPs. Take one part Indiana Jones, add a heaping spoonful of boring and a pinch of action, and you have military life abroad. The smell of shisha begins there, and it doesn't smell like the Air Force...
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After a Lifetime of Skating on the Edge, Has Keith &quot;Jack&quot; Idema Finally Slid Over? The badlands of Afghanistan have become a magnet for adventure-seeking &quot;soldiers of fortune,&quot; private contractors, self-proclaimed counter-terrorism ...
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On Scene: A soldier learns to fiddle, while NATO tries to douse Afghanistan's fires
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DASHTAK, Afghanistan -- The village of Dashtak sits on a bumpy, washed-out specter of a road, an hour's drive off the main highway between Kabul and Afghanistan's lawless southeast.
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KABUL: Seven people including two US soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan in the past two days. In the first incident, two US soldiers were killed and three were wounded by a roadside
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Organising the first presidential election in Afghanistan, a country largely without power, roads or literacy, has required a leap of imagination that has encompassed everything from donkeys to satellite phones.
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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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SANGIN, Afghanistan  - The message couldn't have been clearer.
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âCharlie Wilsonâs Warâ may be more of a hoot than any picture dealing with the bloody, protracted fight between the Soviet Army and the Afghan mujahedeen has any right to be.
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Teressa Rerras didn't really start taking photographs until age 40, and then it was only as a way to remember her trips to exotic places around the world. Nearly a decade later, she's taking more than just vacation snapshots. She's returning to Afghanistan this month for the ninth time since 2001 to teach girls new ways of seeing their world &#151; and themselves &#151; through photography.
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Are games based on the Vietnam conflict making us immune to realities of history?