List of Taliban articles
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GettyImages-495330957 Bergdahl to Be Court-Martialed for Desertion and Could Face Life in Prison
Bowe Bergdahl is to be court-martialed for deserting his post in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 01: House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) (C) delivers opening remarks during a hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 1, 2015 in Washington, DC. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. testified before the committee about the U.S. strategy to combat the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or ISIS, in Syria and Iraq and its implications for the greater Middle East. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) House Republicans: Bergdahl Swap ‘Violated Several Laws’
Report on the 2014 prisoner swap elicits a strong response from Democrats.
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20151010_quilty_msf_knz_afg_027 The Man on the Operating Table
Baynazar Mohammad Nazar was a husband and a father of four — and a patient killed during the attack on the MSF hospital in Kunduz. This is his story.
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An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier fires a rifle during an ongoing anti-Taliban operation in Dangam district near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in eastern Kunar province on January 17, 2015. Afghan security forces have launched a joint anti-militant operation in parts of Dangam, killing 199 armed insurgents and wounding 112 others, Afghan National Army Commander Zaman Waziri said. AFP PHOTO / Noorullah Shirzada (Photo credit should read Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images) In Nangarhar, IS Recruits Amidst Af-Pak Border Tensions
IS recruits in Afghanistan’s weak border province, but can they avoid the long-standing mistrust and shifting loyalties that characterize the Af-Pak border?
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The damaged hospital in which the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical charity operated is seen on October 13, 2015 following an air strike in the northern city of Kunduz. Thirty-three people are still missing days after a US air strike on an Afghan hospital, the medical charity has warned, sparking fears the death toll could rise significantly. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) NATO Official During Kunduz Strike: ‘I’ll Do My Best, Praying for You All’
A new MSF report goes into harrowing detail about the Oct. 3 U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz.
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20151010_Quilty_MSF_Knz_Afg_029 MSF Hospital Survivors Recount a Night of Horror
With the roar of a plane overhead, doctors and patients huddled in the basement as the hospital went up in flames.
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TO GO WITH AFGHANISTAN-US-ARMY-CONFLICT-FOCUS BY GUILLAUME DECAMME In this photograph taken on August 13, 2015, US army and Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers walk as a NATO helicopter flies overhead at coalition force Forward Operating Base (FOB) Connelly in the Khogyani district in the eastern province of Nangarhar. From his watchtower in insurgency-wracked eastern Afghanistan, US army Specialist Josh Whitten doesn't have much to say about his Afghan colleagues. "They don't come up here anymore, because they used to mess around with our stuff. "Welcome to Forward Operating Base Connelly, where US troops are providing training and tactical advice to the 201st Afghan army corps as they take on the Taliban on the battlefield. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images) Obama, Dropping Pledge, to Keep Thousands of Troops in Afghanistan After 2016
Some 5,500 U.S. forces will remain in country to train the Afghan army and fight the Taliban, al Qaeda, and the Islamic State.
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Wounded survivors of the US airstrikes on the MSF Hospital in Kunduz, receive treatment at the Italian aid organization, Emergency's hospital in Kabul on October 6, 2015. Afghan forces called in a US air strike on a Kunduz hospital that killed 22 people, the top American commander in Afghanistan said October 5, 2015, after medical charity MSF branded the incident a war crime. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images) Washington and Kabul Stand in the Way of International Probe Into Kunduz Attack
President Obama apologized for the airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, but now he stands in the way of an international probe into whether it was a war crime.
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20151010_Quilty_MSF_Knz_Afg_005 Inside the MSF Hospital in Kunduz
An exclusive first look at the horrific aftermath of the U.S. attack in northern Afghanistan.
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Afghan security forces stand over a body of a Taliban militant after fighting between Taliban militants and Afghan security forces near the airport in Kunduz on October 1, 2015. Afghan forces pushed into the centre of Kunduz on October 1, triggering pitched gunfights as they sought to flush out Taliban insurgents who held the northern city for three days in a stinging blow to the country's NATO-trained military The stunning fall of the provincial capital, even temporarily, highlighted the stubborn insurgency's potential to expand beyond its rural strongholds in the south of the country Afghan forces, hindered by the slow arrival of reinforcements but backed by NATO special forces and US air support, struggled to regain control of the city after three days of heavy fighting. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images) The Taliban Are Winning
And the taking of Kunduz was just a dry run for the eventual attack on Kabul.
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Screen Shot 2015-10-07 at 10.53.14 AM On the Road to Kunduz: Follow an FP Contributor’s Journey on Instagram
Kabul-based photographer and FP contributor Andrew Quilty is in Kunduz, Afghanistan this week to report on the fall-out from U.S. airstrikes that hit a hospital there. Follow along on Instagram @foreignpolicymag.
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (C) inspects the indigenously manufactured surveillance drone at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra, some 65 km west of Islamabad on December 18, 2013, as Pakistani air chief Tahir Rafique Butt (R) and army chief Raheel Sharif (L) look on. Pakistan on December 18 launched production of a new version of a combat aircraft featuring upgraded avionics and weapons system. The plane, to be called Block-II JF-17, will be manufactured at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex west of Islamabad, which has so far produced 50 older-model Block-I JF-17s for the air force. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) Watching Kunduz Collapse From the Sidelines
The fall of Kunduz jeopardizes Pakistan's quest for internal stability.
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An Afghan security force personel patrols in Kunduz on April 30, 2015. Intense fighting flared in northern Afghanistan as security forces battled Taliban insurgents advancing on April 28 on a major provincial capital, officials said, with terrified residents fearing the fall of the besieged city. Hundreds of militants closed in on Kunduz city after attacking outlying police and army checkposts on April 24, just hours after the Taliban launched their annual spring offensive. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) The Regional Roots of Kunduz’s Collapse
If an amalgamation of Taliban, Uzbek, Tajik, and other fighters are allowed to exist in the north, they may win over the support of local populations out of fear and hopelessness.
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A Taliban fighter sits on a motor-cycle sporting a Taliban flag a day after the insurgents overran the strategic northern city of Kunduz, on September 29, 2015. Afghanistan on September 29, 2015, mobilised reinforcements for a counter-offensive to take back Kunduz, a day after Taliban insurgents overran the strategic northern city in their biggest victory since being ousted from power in 2001. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) Kunduz City Falls
Security in Kunduz did not deteriorate overnight. For more than a decade, the NATO and Afghan government strategy in the province has been clumsy and largely ineffective.
