In a slum on the outskirts of Kabul, a teacher tries to build a new country by Jeffrey E. Stren This month, the outgoing commander of America’s military effort in Afghanistantold Congress that the country the...
Victims: Over 1,000 Hazaras were massacred in Afshar and Karteh Sahe Date: February 11, 1993 Perpetrators: Then former President Rabbani, his chief military commander and son-in-law, the so-called “lion of Panjshir” Ahmad Shah Massoud (both from Jamiat-i-Islami political...
By Jeffrey E. Stern A few months ago, in downtown Kabul, a small man stood on top of a car with a megaphone in a city liberated by American troops, and faced down his government....