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19 November 2008

Afghanistan: Mired in Combat

Written by Joshua Foust · Central Asia & Caucasus

An interesting pair of stories in the New York Times illustrate brilliantly just how complex the problems facing the United States in Afghanistan and Pakistan really are. The first is CJ Chivers' look at an embattled outpost in Nuristan...

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28 October 2008

Afghanistan: Nuristan, in Pictures

Written by Joshua Foust · Central Asia & Caucasus

We've had enough doom and gloom in Afghanistan for a while, yes? So here's a pretty picture of Aranas village in Waygal district of Nuristan.

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22 October 2008

Afghanistan: Sayed Pervez Kambakhsh's Sentence Commuted to 20 Years

Written by Joshua Foust · Central Asia & Caucasus

At least it's not death: An Afghan appeals court overturned a death sentence Tuesday for a journalism student accused of blasphemy for asking questions in class about women's rights under...

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7 October 2008

Afghanistan: Peace, and Trash

Written by Joshua Foust · Central Asia & Caucasus

Joshua Foust notes the goings on in the Afghanistan blogosphere: ruminations on trash, reconciliation, and, of course, the messy problems posed by the Taliban. That is, if you can define "Taliban."

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28 July 2008

Afghanistan: Seeking Justice

Written by Joshua Foust · Central Asia & Caucasus

Despite its reputation for a very conservative brand of Islam, Afghanistan is deeply torn. Before the recent decades of war, the country was more known for its mystical Sufism that...

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Afghanistan: Violence in the Hazarajat, Protests in Kabul

Written by Joshua Foust · Afghanistan

Afghanistan is one of those countries where minority issues drive nearly everything. They form the basis for why President Hamid Karzai is “the best game in town,” but also why...

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Joshua Foust studies international relations. In real life he’s spent the vast majority of his adult life doing defense and intelligence consulting for the U.S. government. His writing discusses energy, military, and foreign policy, and the cultural components of contemporary warfare. Joshua is also a regular contributor to The Columbia Journalism Review, where he analyzes American media coverage of conflict zones.

He's lived in Kazakhstan and Afghanistan, and wants to go back to both.

Joshua currently lives in a nameless Midwestern metropolis in America. In 2006 he was named, among others, Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.

Joshua also blogs at Registan.net, which is devoted to Central Asia and the Caucasus.

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