AFGHANISTAN
May 2011
The West has turned to former Afghani drug traffickers to hunt insurgents. But these "covert armies" are producing unpredictable warlords as powerful as the ones they are tracking down.
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March 2011
The British official who fixed the frontier that now divides Afghanistan and Pakistan unwittingly unleashed a century of war
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December 2010
Official voices are unwilling to claim victory, but Nato forces in southern Afghanistan are defeating the Taliban
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October 2010
A new National Theatre play avoids cliché to portray US involvement in Afghanistan
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