Articles tagged "afghanistan"

Replacing the terror war with the drug war is going to be a rather difficult task.

Talking with director Eva Orner about Afghanistan's television revolution.

According to a new report from the federal Institute of Medicine, some of the 2.9 million veterans of the most recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have started to display CMI symptoms.

And the timing couldn't be more perfect.

This video is brutal in a concussively claustrophobic sort of way.

Art meets lifesaving in an Afghanistan field.

When NATO alliance forces roll out of Afghanistan in 2014, the fogs of another war could continue billowing out from the country’s southern and western provinces.

The Taliban's drugs aren't what they seem.

How the Taliban Use AK-47s and Kidnappings to Keep the Poor in the Dark

The statistics on remotely-piloted warfare keep getting messier. As many as 33 people are dead in Pakistan and Afghanistan thanks to a series of U.S. drone strikes over the weekend. In Pakistan, it was three separate attacks on Taliban insurgents — o…

For all the griping the U.S. government has done about WikiLeaks, there are some actually some useful applications for the treasure trove of data the whistleblower organization has gotten its hands on. In a sense, the WikiLeaks dumps have created the…

It's "never been a good look":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/9/19/the-bad-omen-of-america-s-falling-drone-syndrome when American drones plummet, for reasons known or unknown, into remote, tribally held areas across the Middle East, or over the U.S…

Jonathan Bartlett had lost his legs fighting for the U.S. Army in Iraq. He did everything right afterword, however -- went back to school for a business degree, rejoined the workforce, did all the celebrated civilian American things. He killed himsel…

Viktor Bout, an arms smuggler so infamous that he is frequently referred to as “The Merchant of Death,” "has been sentenced":http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/apr/06/viktor-bout-sentenced-25-years-video to 25 years in prison by a Manhattan c…

The international war on drugs continues to rage, with opium poppies extending a slow but steady comeback trend dating back to 2006. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime "reports":http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2012/January/afg…

An expanding American drone fleet has been carrying out reconnaissance and combat missions for years, and is now steadily being outfitted to haul massive amounts of precious cargo to the remote, volatile frontlines of Middle Eastern battlefields. Cal…

Since the early 1960s, the rocket propelled grenade launcher has served around the world as "either the sling of David against totalitarian Goliaths or the terrorist’s Saturday night special," "writes design critic Phil Patton":http://changeobserver…

For the first time, the ISAF occupying force (yes, mainly American) in Afghanistan "released its official tallies":http://motherboard.tv/2011/3/10/wikileaks-data-was-right-about-afghan-civilian-casualties--2 of civilian casualties. The numbers are im…