Taliban
The suicide bomber and me
A trip to Afghanistan to report on the destruction of the opium crop almost resulted in death
The noise before defeat
Even a good retreat would not have rescued a bad war
Christopher Hitchens’s War
Commentators used 9/11 to keep framing the world as liberty versus totalitarianism
Did WhatsApp just cost America Afghanistan?
Rather than fight, the Taliban appear to have phoned everyone in the country
Britain’s military performance in Iraq and Afghanistan
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the performance of the British forces in the war on terror
Sticking plaster
We could never have achieved the laudable aims of a “New Afghanistan”
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze