by Lindsay Holst | May 25, 2014 | Monitor
U.S. troops react as they shake hands with President Barack Obama at Bagram Airfield in Bagram, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 25, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Watch on YouTube President Obama made a surprise visit to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan today...
by Patrick Ventrell | Nov 29, 2013 | Monitor
Click here to see the photo gallery. On her first foreign trip as National Security Advisor, Ambassador Susan Rice spent three and a half days in Afghanistan to thank our troops and civilians around the holidays, and assess the situation on the ground. ...
by David Axe | May 23, 2013 | Monitor
The U.S. strategy in Afghanistan depends on the loyalty of the Afghan Local Police. But that loyalty is being tested by an apparent Taliban campaign of infiltration.
by Joshua Foust | Jul 17, 2012 | Monitor
The Washington Post reports: The United States and its allies have devoted years of effort and billions of dollars to improve the delivery of basic services in rural Afghanistan. If Afghan leadership were to have taken hold anywhere, it might well have been in Karz, a...
by Peter J. Munson | Jul 2, 2012 | Monitor
By: Peter J. Munson Stemming from his must-read book, an important discussion about Helmand, Kandahar, and America's flawed attempt to save Afghanistan.
