Remember how you doled out allowances to your kids, trying to teach them the value of a quarter before moving on to a dollar? (OK — I was cheap.) Check out this chart from a Thursday report from the Government Accountability Office: direct payments to Afghanistan from Washington more than tripled between 2009 and 2010 with …
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Afghanistan: “Can Do!” or “Can We Do?”
Marine Lieut. General John Allen told the Senate Armed Services Committee three weeks ago that he was “cautiously optimistic” about the future of Afghanistan as he readied to take over for Army General Dave Petraeus (the change of command happened Monday).
A new State Department inspector general’s report — Sensitive But …
Internal UN Report: Summary Executions, Mass Graves in Sudan
An internal UN report provides more evidence of mass graves in Sudan’s southern Kordofan as violence against civilians, mostly perpetrated by northern forces, spirals out of control.
TIME Thursday published satellite photos and information from eyewitnesses gathered by George Clooney’s Satellite Sentinel Project that shows …
The Military Outlook in Afghanistan: Betting Against the Odds
The U.S. troop presence has peaked in Afghanistan at 101,000 and from here on out the Afghans will increasingly be on their own, President Obama made clear Wednesday night. The military challenge going forward is easy to describe, but tough to execute: can the fledgling Afghan national security forces — salted with corruption, …