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Topic: Afghanistan War

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Anti-war veterans say no to Hegseth

William Hartung - TomDispatch.com
Retrograde (Tim Grucza/OTP/National Geographics)

Filming as the war in Afghanistan ends

Sophia A. McClennen
Retrograde (Matthew Heineman/OTP/National Geographics)

A chilling view of Afghanistan War's end

Sophia A. McClennen
U.S. President Joe Biden (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Media learned nothing from Afghanistan

Amanda Marcotte
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The preparations of the coalition forces before starting their joint patrols with the People's Protection Units on April 29, 2017 near Turkey Broder, Syria. (Bedir Ehmed/Barcroft Media/Getty Images)

Can we turn away from endless war?

Medea Benjamin
President Donald Trump (Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Trump remained silent as Putin hunted US

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
Security personnel arrived at the site of a deadly suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2018. (AP/Salon)

Memorial Day is killing us

Erik Edstrom - TomDispatch.com
Donald Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

Trump's Taliban deal flops again

Sophia Tesfaye
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United States Marines from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marines watch the explosion after calling in an airstrike during a gunbattle as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Making sense of the age of carnage

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
Wolf Blitzer, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images/Salon)

Dems make the case for (gasp!) peace

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch
U.S. President Donald Trump (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Why Trump did it: All bad reasons

Heather Digby Parton
United States Marines from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marines watch the explosion after calling in an airstrike during a gunbattle as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Will 2020 bring an end to endless war?

Bob Hennelly
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Donald Trump and Edward Gallagher (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

The president and the accused murderer

Heather Digby Parton
United States Marines from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marines watch the explosion after calling in an airstrike during a gunbattle as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

The real outrage of the Afghanistan war

Sophia A. McClennen
Afghan security forces inspect the aftermath of Sunday's attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan papers: reminder of Vietnam

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
Military Cemetery (Getty Images)

Who fights America's "forever wars"?

Chauncey DeVega
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(AP/Jean-Marc Bouju)

Living at war (forever)

Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com
A boy walks through buildings damaged from fighting on July 15, 2017 in Shadal Bazaar, Afghanistan. (Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images)

The imperial debris of war

Stephanie Savell - TomDispatch.com
(AP/Getty/Photo montage by Salon)

Trump: "Afghanistan could be wiped off"

David Edwards - Raw Story
1st Lt. Michael C. Behenna; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump pardons war criminals, Dems shrug

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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Retired Marine Sgt. John Peck, of Fredricksburg, Va., right, and Sophia Elwood, 7, the daughter of Peck's fiancee, place an American flag on one of the names inscribed at the south reflecting pool at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, July 4, 2014. (AP/Tina Fineberg)

The story of my new arms

John Peck, Dava Guerin, Terry Bivens
Fighters with Afghanistan's Taliban militia walk with their weapons in Ahmad Aba district on the outskirts of Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, on July 18, 2017. (Getty/FARIDULLAH AHMADZAI)

Trump wants us to pay back the Taliban

Igor Derysh
(Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Maps can’t be hacked, GPS can be

Lucian K. Truscott IV
In this April 14, 1947 file photo, a long line winds toward the entrance to Morrisania Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York, where doctors are inoculating against smallpox. In an attempt to halt the spread of the disease, officials said city residents were being vaccinated at the rate of eight a minute. (AP Photo)

Measles flares beyond 700 cases

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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