In Afghanistan and Pakistan, militants are killed or arrested in groups of 30 with bizarre frequency. Joshua Foust suspects it’s just shorthand for “we think we got a few bad guys.”
Afghanistan voted for its representatives in Parliament on Saturday. And what’s remarkable is, it’s not nearly as bad as everyone hoped.
Afghanistan’s second parliamentary election is happening on Saturday. Here are five things you need to know about it.
Give them a chance to help themselves, as they’ve shown they can in two relatively stable regions
The U.S. military continues to insist that better roads are the key to securing Afghanistan, writes Joshua Foust. All evidence to the contrary.
Members of China’s Muslim Uighur minority have clashed, sometimes violently, with the authorities, and Beijing has used the threat of terror to crackdown on them.
The Chechen insurgency has been pushed into neighboring republics.
Radical transparency sounds like a really great idea until you ponder the real consequences.
“Top Secret America,” the result of a two-year project by veteran national security reporter Dana Priest and William Arkin, is making waves for its eye-popping revelations.
