Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 By Steve Coll Penguin, 695 pp., $29.95 “It’s hard to be an ally of the United ...

As the war on terrorism continues in Afghanistan, Chicago audiences who are curious about the military and political situation are being given six chances over the next two weeks to see “Jung [War]: ...

The State Department has decided to remove the Iranian exile group Mujaheddin-e Khalq from the U.S. government's terrorist list, officials said Friday, ending a decade-long fight over a controversial ...

Until 1988, the United States at every turn blocked attempts to secure a negotiated settlement between the left-wing Peoples Democratic Party government in Afghanistan and sections of the right-wing ...

NEW DELHI, March 23 -- Masked men today fatally shot a former leader of the largest Islamic guerrilla group in Kashmir who had favored dialogue to resolve the armed rebellion in the disputed region.

Taliban bureaucrats lamented their new positions in the government in a series of exclusive interviews with the Afghanistan Analysts Network. The interviews provided a comical window into the lives of ...

On June 17, when French police arrested 165 reported members of exiled Iranian military group Mujaheddin e-Khalq (MEK), including the wife of its charismatic leader, they further convoluted the ...

When Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced creation of yet another counter-IED Pentagon task force, he was clearly frustrated with the inability of the military, the intelligence agencies and ...

A narrative documentary which follows its protagonists’ human and professional adventures: they are Gino Strada, a surgeon from the Emergency health organisation, who is accompanied by Ettore Mo, a ...

Officials of the Mujaheddin organization Ensarije have announced a "human rights violation protest". According to the organization's Deputy President Imad al Husini, a.k.a. Abu Hamza, the rights of ...

With the recent certification of the results of the September 18 voting for the Afghan National Assembly's People's Council (Wolesi Jirga) and provincial councils, Afghanistan came one step closer to ...