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Ashraf Ghani: ‘There Will Be No Honeymoon’

U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently warned Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who was reelected in a...
Newsweek, 11/23/09 by Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai · More from publication
Twisting Arms in Afghanistan

Hamid Karzai probably would have won Afghanistanâs Aug. 20 presidential election even without the widespread fraud that led a U.N.-backed...
Newsweek, 11/09/09 by Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau · More from publication
Cast of Characters

Maulvi Mohammad Haqqani, 40, is a former Taliban deputy minister who fled Kabul during the U.S. bombing campaign, suffered a nervous breakdown in...
Newsweek, 10/05/09 by Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau · More from publication
The Taliban in Their Own Words

During wars and after them, the real voice of the enemy is rarely heard. Propaganda is plentiful, as are prideful boastsâand the Taliban have...
Newsweek, 10/05/09 by Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau · More from publication
Afghanistan’s ‘Predatory’ State

Former Afghan finance minister Ashraf Ghani is one of President Hamid Karzaiâs most articulate and vociferous critics, and a chief contender...
Newsweek, 06/29/09 by Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai · More from publication
Islamist Overreach

Last week yet another militant victory in Pakistan had many fretting that the countryâs capital could also soon fall to the Taliban. After...
Newsweek, 05/04/09 by Sami Yousafzai And Ron Moreau · More from publication

For The Taliban, A Crime That Pays

How ransom kidnappings, once a rarity in most of Afghanistan, have become a cash source second only to the narcotics trade for the countryâs...
Newsweek, 09/15/08 by Sami Yousafzai And Ron Moreau · More from publication
The Taliban’s Baghdad Strategy

The insurgents are closing in on Kabul, not in order to overrun the capital but to terrorize its residents and drive away investors. Itâs...
Newsweek, 08/04/08 by Sami Yousafzai And Ron Moreau · More from publication
Inside the Prison Escape

This monthâs spectacular prison escape in Kandahar began with a jailed guerrillaâs phone conversation with the No. 2 leader of the Afghan...
Newsweek, 06/30/08 by Sami Yousafzai · More from publication
Where ‘The Land Is On Fire’

The village of Damadola is caught between tribal loyalties and Americaâs wrath. Damadola used to be about as quiet as any place on earth....
Newsweek, 06/16/08 by Sami Yousafzai And Ron Moreau · More from publication