topic: Taliban

When ISIS Steals Your School
April 18, 2016
Graffiti on the walls of a high school in Afghanistan’s Achin district, some 10km from the Pakistani border, reads: “Islamic Governorate of...
Administrators reclaim their school after IS left it in shambles
blog
Peace in Afghanistan: Challenges and Opportunities
July 24, 2015
The first official face-to-face talks between the representatives of the Government of Afghanistan (GoA) and Tehrik-e Taliban Afghanistan (...
Opinion
A Prisoner Swap and the Law
June 14, 2014
Every day brings new criticism of the Obama Administration for the deal it struck to bring Bowe Bergdahl home. How could the president...
Bergdahl release ©Taliban
column
The Calligrapher and the Colonists
March 30, 2014
I was not in Kabul in 1996. That was the last time the Taliban marched into a city, the last time the world was not watching, the last time...
Art
A Factless Autobiography
May 17, 2013
In the random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my factless autobiography, my lifeless...
Reportage
The Fog of War
November 6, 2011
This chapter is the last in Anne Nivat’s new book, Fog of War: A Last Mission in Afghanistan . The preceding chapters recall her journeys...