American leaders insisted time and time again that they were "making progress" in Afghanistan. After invading the country to root out Al Qaeda in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S ...

“Bodyguard of Lies,” a documentary examining the deceit that drove the longest war in American history, takes its title from a Winston Churchill line: “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should ...

Corruption at 'Every Level' Undermines Legitimacy Steve Coll argues that addressing corruption must come first. "In the long run, counterinsurgency cannot work if the government has no credibility [..

Eleven months ago, the Atlantic Wire surveyed the increasingly vocal warnings that corruption was our biggest challenge in Afghanistan. Now, many experts and observers in the U.S. are seeing little ...