In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.

“Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House.”

Blast, impact, trauma, and everything that comes after traumatic brain injury.

In 2019, President Trump pardoned Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance, who was serving a 20-year sentence for ordering the murder of two Afghan civilians.

To Lorance’s defenders, the act was long overdue. To members of his platoon, it was a gross miscarriage of justice.

Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate.

A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.

In Aug. 2008, the U.S. military called in an airstrike on its own security guards in Afghanistan. Dozens of children were killed.

U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress during the war in Afghanistan. They were not, and they knew it.

An oral history of the war in Afghanistan.

How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.

The case against “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh.

The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.

An Afghanistan love story.

War, family histories, and place.

A happy ending, eventually.

How two veterans with PTSD turned a Canadian military town into a medical-marijuana hub.

Noorullah Aminya was once a valuable ally to the American military. Then, with the Taliban going after his family, he attempted to defect and spent three years in federal detention. To be granted asylum, he needed to convince a judge that the Taliban rule Afghanistan in full. Which would mean America has lost the war.

A U.S. Marine’s journey from the Afghan war to an Illinois prison.

When his father was murdered, Wasil Ahmad vowed revenge. He was 8 years old.

A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.

“In some ways, joining the military is an act of faith in one’s country—an act of faith that the country will use your life well.”

Did Afghan forces target the M.S.F. hospital?

What happened to the Afghan timber worker after a 2005 battle was made into a book and feature film.

How a young Afghan trucking-company owner became spectacularly rich.

Afghans have long visited falbin to have their futures foretold. Fundamentalist Muslim clerics hope to stop that.