During the year that is supposed to determine Afghanistan’s future, Anna Badkhen gives readers a longer look at a deeply fissured nation that has endured war almost incessantly for millennia.
A Visit to Northern Afghanistan
Published June 7, 2011
President Obama is expected to present his ideas for the way ahead in Afghanistan later this month. The President is likely to announce how many American troops will start coming home in July. Obama is under pressure from the public and Congress to bring home a substantial number but Defense Secretary Robert Gates says only a “modest” drawdown would be appropriate. Journalist Anna Badkhen has chronicled her recent visit to Afghanistan in this week’s Foreign Policy magazine.
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A new e-book published by Foreign Policy in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center details reporter Anna Badkhen's experience in Afghanistan during the war, embedded with the Afghan people.
Pulitzer Center grantee Anna Badkhen speaks with American Public Media about how families in Afghan villages have coped with violence and the Taliban.
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Anna Badkhen writes about people in extremis. She is a journalist and the author of Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories and Waiting for the Taliban...
