By Jean MacKenzie - GlobalPost KABUL -- It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is the foreign assistance coming into the country. Virtually...
"We totally missed the boat." By C.M. Sennott - GlobalPost KABUL -- We were heading for the U.S. military's counterinsurgency training camp where field officers study how to avoid repeating the fate of so many other empires in Afghanistan. Along the way, we drove past...
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By Terri Shultz BRUSSELS -- NATO's new secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen took over Saturday with this last-minute legacy from the outgoing administration: July 2009 was the deadliest month ever for international troops in Afghanistan. In a wide-ranging news conference held on his first day in...
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