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Ahmed Rashid: Afghan Taliban Don't See India as Their Enemy

Policy

A veteran observer of the Afghan Taliban argues that they're moderating their outlook ahead of likely ceasefire negotiations with the United States.

March 27th by Jeff Tompkins | Comments

Interview: Ahmed Rashid on the Road to Reconciliation in Afghanistan

Ahmed Rashid, author of Pakistan on the Brink. (Ahmed Rashid)
Policy

Leading Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid outlines what needs to happen for any kind of peaceful future to become possible in Afghanistan.

March 19th by Nadia Rasul | Comments

Afghanistan Civilian Killings Give Taliban 'Forum' to Align With Afghan Public

U.S. soldiers keep watch at the entrance of a military base near Alkozai village following the shooting of Afghan civilians allegedly committed by a rogue U.S. soldier in Panjwayi district, Kandahar province on March 11, 2012. (Jangir/AFP/Getty Images)
Policy

A U.S. sergeant's slaying of 16 Afghan civilians could not only stall U.S. efforts to negotiate with the Taliban, but give the group more public support ahead of U.S. combat troop withdrawal next year, according to Asia Society experts.

March 12th by Alex Ortolani | Comments

Gallup: Americans Like China Less Now Than They Did a Year Ago

(Flickr/Brent Finnegan)
Lifestyle

Several Asian nations held up the rear of a Gallup poll released yesterday measuring Americans' favorability toward foreign countries.

February 17th by Rebecca Chao | Comments

Interview: Thomas Gouttierre on Early U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan

Afghan men walk past by U.S. soldiers in Ghazni province on February 2, 2012. (Aref Yaqubi/AFP/Getty Images)
Policy

Afghanistan expert and Asia Society Associate Fellow Thomas Gouttierre says non-military job creation is key to a successful exit for the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

February 8th by Alex Ortolani | Comments

Photo of the Day: Cold Spell Grips Afghanistan

Multimedia

A cold winter morning in Kandahar on February 3, 2012 submitted by Ayat Ullah from Afghanistan. Frigid temperatures have claimed the lives of at least 22 people in the past month.

February 7th by Shreeya Sinha | Comments

Afghanistan Untold: Multimedia by Augstin Pictures, MediaStorm and Asia Society

Pashtun girl in a village in eastern Afghanistan. (Lukas Augustin)
Multimedia

What do we really know about Afghanistan? Here are this year's multimedia pieces that have gone beyond images of war to tell the story of the Afghan people.

December 16th by Shreeya Sinha | Comments

History Lessons From Karbala

Pakistani Shiite Muslim mourners offer noon prayers during an Ashura procession in Karachi on December 6, 2011, on the tenth day of the holy month of Muharram, to mark the martyrdom of seventh century saint Imam Hussain. (Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images)
Policy

The idea of defiance against tyranny and oppression owes a great deal to Hussain ibne Ali, the hero of the battle of Karbala in 680 AD.

December 12th by Hassan Abbas | Comments

Asia Society's Young Afghan Leaders Make Case at Bonn Afghanistan Conference

Tamim Asey (2nd row, 4th from L) and fellow Afghan leaders at Asia Society's Afghanistan Young Leaders Initiative (AYLI) in Kabul in Oct. 2011.
Policy

Young Afghans who are part of Asia Society's Afghanistan Young Leaders Initiative (AYLI) submitted a report on key issues facing their country, and strategies to solve them, to the Afghanistan International Conference convening in Bonn this week.

December 5th by Annie Ali Khan | Comments

Photo of the Day: Combat Outpost, Afghanistan

Multimedia

U.S. Army Sgt. Barry Dilley from the Oklahoma National Guard, walks down a path at a combat outpost in Afghanistan on November 28, 2011. (The U.S. Army /Flickr)

December 2nd by Shreeya Sinha | Comments
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