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Reports: Europe Decides Not to Play America’s Game

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Denies Taliban Ties in Afghanistan

Reports: Karzai’s Bagram Demands Add Stress to U.S. Policy

Ear to the Ground: Anti-American Groups Gather in Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Dozens Killed in Afghan Bombings

Reports: Afghanistan Is Obama’s Gordian Knot

Ear to the Ground: Former Afghan President and Peace Negotiator Killed

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Shoots Down Helicopter in Afghanistan, 37 Dead

Cartoons: U.S. Dollars for Taliban

Ear to the Ground: A Top Aide to Karzai Is Killed

Ear to the Ground: Pakistani Lawyer Blocked From U.S. After Suing CIA on Drone Strikes

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Reconciliation Efforts Have Failed

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Busts Alleged Aides in Bin Laden Blitz

Reports: Spare Us the Propaganda on Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Hitchens: Shame on U.S. and Pakistan

Reports: War Is the New Normal

Ear to the Ground: Bin Laden Blowback?: More Than 80 Killed in Pakistan Blasts

Reports: A Monster of Our Own Creation

Reports: Everyone’s Missing the Point

Cartoons: Taliban Escapees

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks’ Guantanamo Files Released

Cartoons: Republicans and Planned Parenthood

Cartoons: Addicted to the Afghan War

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Warns Taliban

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Suicide Bomber Kills 43

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Suicide Attacks Kill 13

A/V Booth: An Afghan War Refresher With President Obama

A/V Booth: Since When Does Interpol Care About Women?

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Now in Afghanistan Longer Than Soviets

Reports: NATO Summit Unlikely to Answer the Most Important Questions

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus, Clinton Criticize Karzai’s Criticism of Strategy

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Ask for a Reality Check

Ear to the Ground: Bomb Attacks Shake Pakistan

Reports: The High Price of Patriotism

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Admits to Taking Cash From Iran

Cartoons: Haircut

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Exploring Talks with Taliban in Afghanistan

Cartoons: Reconciliation Talks In Afghanistan

A/V Booth: Afghanistan: A Costly and Brutal Anniversary

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Regime in Contact With Taliban

Ear to the Ground: NATO Forces Fire on Targets Inside Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Senior Al-Qaida Leader Killed in Drone Strike, Pakistan Says

Ear to the Ground: Surprise: Fraud Alleged in Afghan Elections

Ear to the Ground: Quran-Burning Controversy Still Sparking Unrest in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan to Get Worse Before It Gets Better

Arts and Culture: ‘Medal of Honor’ Yanked From Military Bases

Ear to the Ground: General Says Obama’s Plan Helps the Enemy

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Claims Cautious Progress in Afghanistan

Reports: Ground Zero for Tolerance

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Demand Civilian Casualties Committee

A/V Booth: Gen. Petraeus on ‘Progress’ and Doubts in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon, WikiLeaks Clash Again

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Fires Off First Set of Guidelines to Troops in Afghanistan

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Best Leak Ever

Reports: Thank God for the Whistle-Blowers

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Prepares for Fallout From Wikileaks Revelations

Reports: The Biggest Secret From the ‘Secret Archive’

Cartoons: Make Wuv Not War

Reports: Still Waiting for Answers About Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan and the Taliban, Sitting in a Tree

Ear to the Ground: Has Karzai Lost Faith?

Ear to the Ground: Mosque Attacks Kill 80 in Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Team Obama Handles Karzai With Kid Gloves

Ear to the Ground: U.S.: Pakistan Taliban Behind NYC Plot

Ear to the Ground: Report: Karzai Set Taliban Leader Free

Ear to the Ground: Karzai’s Rep Says Afghan President Never Threatened to Join Taliban

Ear to the Ground: Gibbs: Team Obama ‘Frustrated’ With Karzai’s Remarks

Reports: The Taliban’s Glossy New Front in the Battle for Hearts and Minds

Ear to the Ground: 5 Americans Indicted on Terrorism Charges in Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: McChrystal Apologizes for Afghan Civilian Deaths

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Immunity Law Stirs Up Anger

Reports: America’s Confused Approach to Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: ‘Very Challenging Year’ for Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Talking With the Taliban

Ear to the Ground: 10 More Years?

Ear to the Ground: McChrystal Discusses Afghanistan Plan

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Envoy ‘Worried’ About Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Remodeling Karzai’s Cabinet

Ear to the Ground: Karzai: Afghan Schoolchildren Killed in Military Operation

Ear to the Ground: McChrystal: Defeating Bin Laden, Taliban Key to Afghanistan Victory

A/V Booth: ‘Mosaic’: The Real Reason Behind Obama’s Afghan Surge

Reports: Here We Go Again

A/V Booth: Obama Makes It Official: 30,000 More U.S. Troops to Head to Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Obama Hints at ‘Comprehensive’ Afghanistan Plan

Reports: Getting Out of Afghanistan With Grace

Reports: Afghanistan’s Sham Army

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

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