August 18, 2009 Reuters
	TIMELINE: Violent road to Afghanistan election -- Here is a timeline of major Afghan developments since 2001.
March 02, 2009 The New York Times
	Afghan Women Slowly Gaining Protection -- Mariam was 11 in 2003 when her parents forced her to marry a blind, 41-year-old cleric. The bride price of $1,200 helped Mariam’s father, a drug addict, pay off a debt.
February 23, 2009 The Los Angeles Times
	In Afghanistan, it's deadly at the top -- In 2003, I met Afghan President Hamid Karzai under somewhat unusual circumstances. The Rand Corp., my employer, and Sesame Workshop had teamed up to create an Afghan version of "Sesame Street." We were designing short video episodes to be shown to the new generation of post-Taliban Afghan schoolchildren. Karzai had agreed to appear in one of the episodes.
January 14, 2009 Afghanistan News center
	NATO tightens Afghan rules to cut civilian deaths -- NATO said on Wednesday it had further tightened its rules of engagement in Afghanistan to cut civilian casualties but accused the Taliban of causing the vast majority of the hundreds of civilian deaths seen last year.
August 01, 2008 The Huffington Post
	Stopping Military Build-up In Afghanistan Key to Real "Change" and "Hope" -- Recent debates around a possible and likely military build-up in Afghanistan have created some divisions and tensions within the movement to stop the war in Iraq. Though it is urgent and necessary to debate the pros and cons of exposing the Afghan people to more U.S. militarism, we should, with increasing urgency, worry about exposing ourselves to the effects of continued and increased militarism: budgets broken by war, spikes in global hatred of the U.S. and the possibility of raising children in a future dominated by the anti-democratic dual dictates of perpetual war and "national security."
July 07, 2008 The Washington Post
	Bomb at Indian Embassy kills 41 in Afghanistan -- KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb hit the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people and wounding 139, in an attack Afghan authorities said was coordinated with foreign agents in the region, a likely reference to Pakistan.
July 03, 2008 abc News
	Afghan children 'forgotten victims' of war: UN -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says children in Afghanistan suffer more than in any other country in the world from violence, war and poverty.
June 12, 2008 BBC News
	Major Guantanamo setback for Bush -- In a major legal setback for the Bush administration, the court overturned by five to four a ruling upholding a 2006 law which removed such rights.
April 10, 2008 Telegraph
	US envoy may challenge for Afghan presidency -- The Afghan-born US Ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, has signalled that he will run for the presidency of Afghanistan in elections next year.
April 10, 2008 The New York Times
	Afghans Hold Secret Trials for Men That U.S. Detained -- Dozens of Afghan men who were previously held by the United States at Bagram Air Base and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are now being tried here in secretive Afghan criminal proceedings based mainly on allegations forwarded by the American military.
February 29, 2008 The Guardian
	Afghanistan mission close to failing - US -- After six years of US-led military support and billions of pounds in aid, security in Afghanistan is "deteriorating" and President Hamid Karzai's government controls less than a third of the country, America's top intelligence official has admitted.
February 22, 2008 TIME
	Iran Raises the Heat in Afghanistan -- Afghanistan is in a tough spot. The country is reliant on the U.S. and NATO for its security and, at the same time, shares its longest land border with Iran.