Afghanistan

IWPR Insight
11 May 12
No one has yet called alleged perpetrators of war crimes to account, and there is little chance of it happening once foreign troops leave in 2014.
10 May 12
In Balkh province, residents say foreign troops are conducting searches just the same as before.
President Karzai attending a NATO summit on Afghanistan, November 2010. (Photo: UN Photo/Evan Schneider)
10 May 12
President says foreign troop withdrawal could make 2014 poll impossible.
3 May 12
In one area of Uruzgan province, two doctors are supposed to look after tens of thousands of people.
Special Investigation
1 May 12
Donors gave more than one million dollars in funding and materials, but paper trail for where this went proves elusive.
Special Investigation
30 Apr 12
Street sellers say they have to pay daily bribes to city officials if they want to continue working.
Election day in the Balkh province. (Photo: IWPR) Taleban troops parade through Musa Qala. Photo by Aziz Ahmad Tassal. November 2007. Brigadier Ed Davis, the commander of Task Helmand Force, shakes hands with provincial police chief General Hakim Angar as the NATO-led force formally hands over control to Afghan security forces, July 20. (Photo: Isafmedia/Hamish Burke) Admiral Mike Mullen, whose robust comments on Pakistani links to Afghan insurgents caused a diplomatic storm. (Photo: Medill DC/Flickr)
American soldiers carry out a night raid on compounds in Maiwand, Kandahar province. (Photo: US Army/Flickr) A plane takes off at Bagram; the burning of holy books at the airbase has led to angry protests across Afghanistan. (Photo: Isafmedia/Flickr)
Villagers in western Afghanistan say new local defence forces create threats, not security. (Photo: ISAF/Laura K. Smith) IWPR training workshop held in Helmand. (Photo: IWPR) Girls study under canvas at a school in Balkh province. (Photo: Isaf media) An Afghan schoolgirl in Ghazni – where the Taleban have agreed to reopen schools. (Photo: U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Katherine Roling/ISAF Public Affairs) A US Navy medic assists Afghan civilians injured by an improvised explosive device that hit the bus they were traveling on in Delaram, southwest Afghanistan. The Taleban are now trying to downplay their own role in civilian casualties and shift the blame to the Afghan government and its western allies. (Photo: Corporal Matthew Troyer/US. Marine Corps) A shopping street in Herat. (Photo: Isafmedia/US. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Kevin Wallace)