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N.Y. man sentenced in terrorism financing case

Colleen Long

Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari transferred funds intended for terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan

04/19/2010 20:01 EDT

Why economic sanctions on Iran won’t work

Juan Cole

There are no good military options, and oil always finds a way around sanctions

04/19/2010 14:20 EDT

New Kyrgyz leaders vow to prosecute ex-president

Peter Leonard, Yuras Karmanau

Kurmanbek Bakiyev, driven from country last week, is accused of corruption, ordering shootings of protesters

04/16/2010 18:32 EDT

Pakistani men chat at each other in front of a poster of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, center, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Friday, April 16, 2010. A new U.N. report that blames Pakistan's security establishment for failing to stop the assassination of Bhutto paves the way for a "proper police investigation" into her killing, aides to her widower, said Friday. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) (AP)

Little progress likely in Bhutto case

Chris Brummitt

Critical U.N. report says powerful interests will kill any efforts to find ex-prime minister's assassins

04/16/2010 17:55 EDT

Mementos are placed on a gravestone of USAF Captain Kermit O. Evans Sr. inside Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, July 25, 2009. Evans died in Iraq in December 2006. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES POLITICS SOCIETY MILITARY) (Reuters)

Policy changes on Arlington Cemetery grave site mementos

Mark Benjamin

AP says the Army will now collect items left on the graves of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, but doesn't say why

04/15/2010 23:16 EDT

America and the Dictators: From Diem to Karzai

Alfred McCoy

The Obama administration's dealings with Afghanistan's president ominously echo disastrous missteps of Vietnam

04/15/2010 20:16 EDT

Some terrorist groups can survive assassinations

Juan Cole

Taking out the head of a radical movement doesn't necessarily kill the body

04/15/2010 13:16 EDT

Former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., speaks at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans on Saturday, April 10.

Right-wing tax myths

Gene Lyons

Tea Party types love to play victim, which has given rise to some ugly myths about who is and isn't paying taxes

04/15/2010 00:20 EDT

Afghan teen slain in campaign of fear

Kathy Gannon

Taliban targeting women who work for foreign organizations or attend school

04/13/2010 18:15 EDT

April 15 and the mounting revolt against war spending

Jo Comerford

One mayor is on a quest to highlight the cost of Iraq and Afghanistan -- for his city and for its residents

04/12/2010 15:13 EDT

Over 200,000 flee military offensive in Pakistan

Associated Press

More than 300 suspected militants have been killed since March, officials say

04/12/2010 12:52 EDT

Afghan protesters burn tires to block a road during an anti-American protest in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 12, 2010. International troops opened fire on a bus carrying Afghan civilians early Monday, killing four people and setting off anti-American protests in a southern city that is a hotbed of the Taliban insurgency.(AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) (AP)

More cause and effect in the War against Terrorists

Glenn Greenwald

Reports of a bus full of Afghan civilians being shot by U.S. soldiers highlights the paradox of our War on Terror

04/12/2010 10:13 EDT

This image from Polish Television's TVP via APTN shows a firefighter walking near some of the wreckage at the crash site where Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's most prominent military and civilian leaders died Saturday April 10, 2010 along with dozens of others when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in near Smolensk in western Russia. (AP Photo/TVP via APTN) (AP)

Polish leader, 96 others dead in Russia jet crash

Monika Scislowska, Victoria Buravchenko

Top officials killed as plane tries to land in thick fog

04/10/2010 17:11 EDT

If you want to understand Kyrgyzstan, read this

Eugene Huskey

The authoritative guide to understanding "the most insubordinate, rebellious, and mutinous nation" in Central Asia

04/10/2010 00:30 EDT

Protesters shout ant government slogans as they gather in front of Kyrgyz government headquarters on the central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan said it has formed an interim government that will rule the turbulent Central Asian nation for six months. Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva said Thursday she will head the government that dissolved the parliament and will take up legislative duties. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) (AP)

Kyrgyzstan forms interim government backed by army

Peter Leonard

After violent uprisings, the opposition coalition vowed to rule until elections are held in six months

04/08/2010 12:44 EDT

Two weeks in Wardak

James Lee

Slide show: The latest installment in our Scenes from Afghanistan photo essay series

04/08/2010 00:20 EDT

Treasury sends more staff to Afghanistan

Lolita C. Baldor

Personnel increase coincides with troop surge as U.S. targets terror financing

04/07/2010 21:45 EDT

Kyrgyz riot police come under attack from demonstrators in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Police in Kyrgyzstan opened fire on thousands of angry protesters who tried to seize the main government building amid rioting in the capital as protests spread across the Central Asian nation. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (AP)

Kyrgyz uprising seizes security headquarters

Peter Leonard

Kyrgyzstan's opposition leader takes over a government office during a turbulent revolt

04/07/2010 18:59 EDT

Follow-up points on the WikiLeaks video

Glenn Greenwald

It's mystifying how anyone could believe that the Apache incident is rare or unusual

04/07/2010 10:08 EDT

President Obama meets with troops at Bagram Air Base in Kabul on March 28.

Obama’s looming legal trap in Afghanistan

Dawinder Sidhu

The president may create another Guantanamo -- in Afghanistan. Here's why it could backfire on him in a big way

04/06/2010 14:37 EDT

Previously classified footage of a July 2007 attack by U.S. Apache helicopters that killed a Reuters journalist and several other non-insurgents, published on WikiLeaks.

Iraq slaughter not an aberration

Glenn Greenwald

The only thing rare about this incident is that we are seeing it on video

04/06/2010 13:07 EDT

WikiLeaks releases video of slaughter in Iraq

Glenn Greenwald

Every American should watch the reality of what we do when we invade and occupy other countries

04/05/2010 21:06 EDT

U.S. forces’ horrifying Afghanistan cover-up

Jenn Kepka

Our troops killed five non-insurgents at a birthday party in Paktia. Could they at least give us an explanation?

04/05/2010 19:06 EDT

Blood is seen near a shoe and a hairband inside a room where five members of an Afghan family were killed near Gardez, in Paktia province, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010.

How Americans are propagandized about Afghanistan

Glenn Greenwald

The Pentagon is again forced to admit that its original claims about an attack were false

04/05/2010 11:06 EDT