The Skeptical Bureaucrat

The news media have obtained several minutes of security video from the Serena Hotel which shows the four attackers in yesterday's a...

Afghanistan Ministry of Interior press conference (AP) After the attack on the Taverna du Liban last January, the diplomat...

Outside the Taverna yesterday Last Friday's attack by the Taliban on a Kabul restaurant that catered to the internat...

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So the story goes that Hillary has finally apologized to Pakistan's Foreign Minister for our errant airstrike of last November that k...

U.S. Embassy employee at roadblock in Peshawar , Pakistani news photo Late this afternoon the State Department release...

Deputy Secretary William J. Burns delivered the remarks at today's ceremony to open the new U.S. Consulate in Herat, Afghan...

- Google Earth map marked with the Northern Distribution Network, from CSIS. After breaking up with Pakistan, it looks like we are rushing i...

H/T to Foreign Policy's Af/Pak Channel blog for noting White House issues stark report on Pakistan : The Obama administration yesterday ...

The National Security Archive has been publishing declassified documents about the origins of our current involvement in Afghanistan and Pa...

These charts on US air strikes in Pakistan , courtesy of The Long War Journal, really show you where the action is happening in our remote-c...

History News Network has linked to this critique from the left of General McChrystal's strategy in Afghanistan. I'm not a leftist...

Both the Washington Post and the New York Times are reporting tonight that the U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan, ex-Lt. General Eikenberry, ...

We seem to have had a tactical success in Waziristan yesterday, but let's not forget that one of our coalition partners was conducting ...