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Ear to the Ground: Clinton: We’re ‘Not Getting Through’ to Pakistanis

Reports: When the Tough Should Get Going

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Target U.N. Workers in Deadly Kabul Attack

A/V Booth: Afghanistan: Fraud, Opium and Taliban

A/V Booth: Afghanistan Prepares for Election Runoff

Ear to the Ground: Six Dead, 18 Hurt in Pakistan University Bombing

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Getting Speedy Military Aid Delivery From Pentagon

Reports: Why Do Conservatives Hate America?

Ear to the Ground: Report: Al-Qaida Hurting for Funds

Ear to the Ground: Over 40 Killed in Yet Another Pakistan Attack

Ear to the Ground: Clinton: Pakistan Authority Losing Juice

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Calls for Reinforcements in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Taliban Say They Have No International Agenda

Reports: A War of Absurdity

Ear to the Ground: At Least Six Dead in Bomb Blast at U.N. Office in Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: ‘Spiraling Increases’ in Afghan Police Deaths

Reports: Saving the Obama Revolution

Ear to the Ground: McChrystal’s Report Could Change Obama’s Afghanistan Plan

Ear to the Ground: Yet Another Reason Why War in Afghanistan Is a Bad Idea

Ear to the Ground: Top Admiral Says U.S. May Need More Troops in Afghanistan

Arts and Culture: Afghan Indiana Jones Hunts Giant Buddha

Ear to the Ground: Getting a Read on Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Intelligence Chief Among 23 Killed in Taliban Suicide Attack

Reports: Obama’s Meaningless War

Ear to the Ground: Top U.S. General Calls for Strategy Change in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough

Reports: Victory at the Cost of Sanity in Obama’s Forever War

Ear to the Ground: Yet Another Blast Shakes Kandahar

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Election Dogged by Fraud Claims

Ear to the Ground: Polls Close in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Afghan News Outlets to Be Censored on Election Day

Ear to the Ground: Key Pakistani Taliban Official Captured

Ear to the Ground: Report: Pre-Election Corruption Crops Up in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Issues Threat Before Afghan Election

Reports: There’s a Solution in Afghanistan—but Not the Way We’re Headed

Ear to the Ground: Top General Denies Saying Taliban Is Winning

Ear to the Ground: Talking With the Taliban

Ear to the Ground: A New Type of Surge

Ear to the Ground: Extreme Makeover: Bagram Prison Edition

A/V Booth: Taliban Releases Video of U.S. Captive

Ear to the Ground: Explosives-Laden Truck Detonates, Kills 25 in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Real Talk on Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: 2 Kidnapped Reporters Escape the Taliban

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

Reports: War-Addicted U.S. Afflicted With Imperialist Hangover

Ear to the Ground: Pakistani Official: No New Nukes

Reports: Cambodia Déjà Vu: the Invasion of Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Gain Ground, Color on Map

Reports: Becoming What We Seek to Destroy

A/V Booth: Pakistan’s Nukes Are Safe ... or Are They?

Reports: Democracy at Gunpoint Guarantees U.S. Defeat

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Military Investigating Afghan Casualty Claims

Ear to the Ground: How Safe Are Pakistan’s Nukes?

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Women Protest Against—and for—‘Rape’ Law

Reports: Taliban, the Sequel

Reports: Obama: The Extremists’ Nightmare

Reports: It’s Now a ‘Soft War’ in Afghanistan, but It’s Still a Disaster

Ear to the Ground: Flogging of 17-Year-Old Pakistani Girl Raises Outrage

Reports: America’s ‘Long War’ Will Be as Bloody and Pointless as Europe’s

Reports: Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women

Ear to the Ground: Obama Zeroes In on Afghanistan

Reports: What Is the Point of NATO?

Ear to the Ground: Saudi Woman, 75, Faces Lashing for Letting In Delivery Men

Ear to the Ground: Biden Talks Afghanistan in NATO Huddle

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Troop Shuffle Leaves Us Dizzy

Reports: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

Reports: It’s Obama’s War Now

Reports: A War Fought in Ignorance

Reports: A Choice Between Peace and Peril

Reports: Good News for the Taliban

Reports: America’s Confused Cause in Central Asia

Reports: Obama’s Afghan Trap

Reports: America’s ‘Strong Commitment to Error’

Reports: NATO: Dead Man Walking

Reports: With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again

Reports: The Wrong Man for the Job

Ear to the Ground: Missile Strikes Kill 20 in Pakistan

Reports: The Afghan Scam

Ear to the Ground: Amid Tensions, Pakistan Moves Troops

Ear to the Ground: Back to the Future: U.S. to Arm Afghan Militias

Reports: From ‘Mission Accomplished’ to ‘So What?’

Reports: Man Is a Cruel Animal

Ear to the Ground: America’s Afghan Thugs

Reports: Who Are the Afghan Insurgents?

Reports: Which Hillary Will We Get?

Reports: Was There Any Point to the Bloodshed in Mumbai?

Reports: Afghanistan in Crisis

Ear to the Ground: Searching for Answers in Mumbai

Reports: To Each His Own Nuke

Reports: How Many Villages Must We Bomb Before We Find bin Laden?

Reports: This Is What He’s Sorry About?

Ear to the Ground: How Bloody Can Bush’s Legacy Be?

Reports: Obama Is the Superior Decider

Reports: Virtual JFK: The 44th President’s Foreign Policy Challenge

Reports: The ‘New Multilateralism’

Reports: What McCain and Obama Just Don’t Get About Central Asia

Ear to the Ground: British Commander Calls Taliban Unbeatable

Ear to the Ground: Secret Bush Order OKs Strikes Inside Pakistan

Reports: Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Bhutto’s Widower Assumes Presidency in Pakistan

Reports: Cleaning Up After Bush

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Sides With Afghans in Airstrike Controversy

Reports: Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire

Ear to the Ground: ‘Surge’ Rhetoric Not Universal

Ear to the Ground: Obama Addresses Tehran From Paris

Ear to the Ground: Obama Commits to Afghanistan Escalation

Reports: Obama’s Disaster in the Making

Ear to the Ground: Obama: ‘The Central Front in the War on Terror Is Not Iraq’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Loses 9 to Taliban Strike

Ear to the Ground: Pakistani Militants Suspected in Kabul Bombing

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Death Toll Outpaces Iraq

Reports: The Illusion of Saving Nations From Themselves

A/V Booth: Is This the Year of the Taliban?

A/V Booth: Over 850 Afghan Prisoners at Large After Kahdahar Raid

Ear to the Ground: Taliban-Led Raid Frees 1,200 in Afghan Prison Break

Reports: Hezbollah Rules West Beirut in Iran’s Proxy War With America

Ear to the Ground: A ‘Mini Surge’ in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Bomb Rips Through Afghan Mosque at Evening Prayer

Ear to the Ground: The Case of the Moldy Ammunition

Ear to the Ground: Sarkozy Cozies Up to Britain

Reports: The Only Lesson We Ever Learn Is That We Never Learn

Ear to the Ground: Prince Harry on the Front Line

Reports: The Mughniyeh Enigma

Reports: The Poppy Problem

Ear to the Ground: Closing In on Bhutto’s Killer

Ear to the Ground: Kabul Hotel Bombing Kills 6

Reports: Not So Happy Holidays for Afghanistan

Reports: Our Man in Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Crackdown Intensifies

Ear to the Ground: Musharraf Declares State of Emergency in Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Unrest in Pakistan Raises Concerns in Washington

Ear to the Ground: Dozens Dead in Pakistan Border Battle

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan ‘Losing War’  With Insurgents

Reports: Fighting Someone Else’s War

Ear to the Ground: Drug Trade Blooms in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan May Crack Down on Freedoms

Ear to the Ground: Bush and Karzai Nix Taliban’s Hostages Deal

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Officer Reported Dead in Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Report:  Al-Qaida Looming Large

Ear to the Ground: Civil War in Pakistan?

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Commander: More Attacks Imminent

Ear to the Ground: Metallica Singer’s Beard Spooks Brits

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Civilian Death Crisis

Ear to the Ground: Afghan President Plays Down Taliban Threat

Ear to the Ground: Kandahar District Falls Briefly to Taliban

Ear to the Ground: U.S. in Shootout With Afghan Police

Ear to the Ground: 7 Killed as Copter Is Downed in ‘Forgotten War’

Ear to the Ground: Airstrike in Afghanistan Kills 21 Civilians

Ear to the Ground: Furor in Afghanistan Over Civilian Deaths

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Civilian Death Toll Climbs

Ear to the Ground: Six NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Report on Tillman Fratricide Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

Ear to the Ground: Deadly Conflict in Pakistan

Reports: The Forgotten War

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Highway Battle Kills 16 Civilians

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Official Nabbed in Pakistan?

Ear to the Ground: Australian Held at Gitmo Will Be Tried in U.S. Court

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Dodges Bomb Attack

Cartoons: Powell: The Price of Distraction

Reports: Reforming Pakistan’s ‘Dens of Terror’

Reports: Women in Afghanistan

A/V Booth: Under the Shroud: Women and the Taliban

Digs: Afghan Autopsy

A/V Booth: Interview With the Taliban

Ear to the Ground: The Forgotten War

Ear to the Ground: Sen. Frist: Bring Taliban Into Gov’t

Ear to the Ground: First Reaction to Bush’s Speech

Digs: Robert Scheer: Gaping Holes in the 9/11 Narrative

Reports: Robert Scheer— Afghanistan: High on Opium, Not Democracy

Ear to the Ground: More Than 200 Taliban Fighters Die in Afghan Clash

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Resurgence Produces Record Opium Harvest in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Yale Both Stonewalls and Attacks on Taliban Student Issue

Ear to the Ground: Taliban in Afghanistan Stronger Than Ever

Reports: Dubai: Great Theater

Ear to the Ground: The Freshman

Reports: Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: High School Teacher Beheaded in Afghanistan

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