Los Angeles Times

Veterans’ voices shape a report on the Afghanistan war’s lessons and effects

COLUMBUS, Ohio — U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their experience was not only hell, but also confounding, ...
Observer

Afghanistan’s War Rugs Weave a Knotty History at the British Museum

War rugs blur the line between artifact and artwork, offering a form of vernacular expression that questions authorship, intention and audience. © The Trustees of ...
NPR

Part of the U.S. strategy in 20 years of war in Afghanistan? Weakening poppies

In an exclusive Washington Post story, reporter Warren Strobel describes a CIA operation in Afghanistan over the course of about a decade. The goal was to degrade the country's opium crop. It has been ...