Militants in Afghanistan have launched an attack on a government delegation visiting the site where a US soldier killed 16 civilians while Anti-American sentiment remains high.
There is anger in Afghanistan over the killing of 16 villagers by a U-S soldier. The Pentagon is investigating, but says the soldier likely acted alone in carrying out the attack. Anchor Marco Werman gets reaction to the incident from Najeeb Azizi, a professor of Public Policy and Economics at Kabul University.
Host Marco Werman talks with Sergeant John Israelsen on how was it possible for the US soldier to leave the base.
Marco Werman talks with the Wall Street Journal’s Charles Levinson, who covered the Second International Afghan Ski Challenge Championship this past weekend.
The US Ambassador to Afghanistan says that “now is not the time to decide that we are done here.”
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Four French soldiers have been killed in northern Afghanistan after a serviceman from the Afghan National Army opened fire, officials say.
The US Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker suspects the Taliban might be ready for serious negotiations.
The Pentagon is following through on its promise to quickly investigate the infamous video that depicts US Marines urinating on Taliban bodies.
Photojournalist David Gill has spend more than three years to profile interesting characters in the city.
The Taliban say they have reached a preliminary agreement to set up a political office, possibly in Qatar, as part of Western plans to end the war in Afghanistan.
Marco Werman talks with Reporter Najibullah Quraishi of our partner program FRONTLINE about his report on the growing problem in Afghanistan of young girls who are kidnapped or traded to drug smugglers when opium farmers cannot meet their debts.
Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Navy Reservist Tyrus Lemerande and his wife, Amy McLaughlin Lemerande, who together manage the Knighthorse Theatre Company. During his recent deployment to Afghanistan, Ty brought his one-man Shakespeare show to troops in Kabul.
Pakistan has shut off the US supply route into Afghanistan after a US airstrike last week killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. As reporter Fahad Desmukh tells us, truckers who ferry supplies for the US military are actually applauding the move, even though it hits them in the pocketbook.
Marco Werman talks with the BBC’s Orla Guerin in Kabul, Afghanistan, about reports that a woman and her daughter were stoned and then shot to death yesterday by the Taliban in the city of Ghazni.
