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Remembering 'Intrepid Storyteller' Anthony Shadid

I met Anthony Shadid on a ruined airstrip in western Afghanistan in the winter of 2001-'02. He was sporting a beard and longer hair in those days that made him look a little like a crusading Arab...

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Army Moves To Act Fast On Battlefield Brain Injuries

Nineteen-year-old Army Pvt. Cody Dollman has a look in his eyes that makes you think he probably used to fight much bigger kids on the playground back home in Wichita, Kan. He says he always wanted to...

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U.S. Apology Fails To Stop Afghan Riots

President Obama apologized in a letter and Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm.But that was not enough to keep Afghans from protesting violently for a third day following word that several...

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For Afghan Policewomen, Sex Abuse Is A Job Hazard

The image of Afghan women wearing police and army uniforms is meant to inspire pride and hope for a future where the rights of women will be protected in Afghanistan.So why would female police officers...

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Will Massacre In Kandahar Be A Policy Tipping Point?

Transcript RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin.In Afghanistan, the massacre of 16 unarmed Afghan civilians, allegedly by a U.S. service member, is the latest...

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Afghan Farmer Lost 11 Relatives In Shooting Rampage

Afghans say they're so inured to civilians killed in wars that they bury their dead and move on. That's not so easy for Muhammad Wazir. He lost his mother, his wife, a sister-in-law, a brother, a...

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Dreams Of A Mining Future On Hold In Afghanistan

Afghanistan faces the daunting prospect of a drastic reduction in foreign aid, which currently makes up about 90 percent of the country's revenue. Some have seen an economic life raft in geological...

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Taliban Claims Responsibility For Afghan Attacks

Transcript LYNN NEARY, HOST: What the Taliban are calling the start of their spring offensive kept security forces across Afghanistan fighting throughout Sunday and into this morning. Officials say 36...

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Deal Reached On U.S.-Afghan Strategic Partnership

Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: The Afghan and U.S. governments have finalized a strategic partnership deal. It took more than a year of negotiations, including plenty of ups and downs between Kabul...

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Facing Death, Afghan Girl Runs To U.S. Military

In a remote part of Afghanistan early last year, a girl was sentenced to death. Her crime was possession of a cellphone. Her executioners were to be her brothers. They suspected her of talking on the...

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For Afghan Soldiers, A Battle For Respect

Last month, the Taliban carried out their largest coordinated attack across Afghanistan, including three sites inside the capital Kabul. It took an 18-hour gunfight to end the assault.But even as they...

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Afghan Goal: Toning Down The Radical Preachers

The ministry that governs religious affairs in Afghanistan has announced what some are calling a "three strikes" policy.It's a warning directed at Muslim clerics, or imams, accused of inciting violence...

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Afghan Public Protection Force Profile

Nearly two years ago, Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered that gun-toting private security companies in his country be brought under state control. But the Afghan force to replace the foreign-funded...

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A New Generation Of Vets Faces Challenges At Home

Homeless veterans of the Vietnam War have been a face of American poverty for decades, and now some veterans of a younger generation are dealing with the same difficult issues."I had my apartment up...

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Doing It To Win: Veterans Raise Bar At Paralympics

On a placid summer morning last month, before the Virginia heat could hit them, a former U.S. Marine and his partner lifted their rowing scull into the glassy water of the Rivanna River, near...

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A Year After War Wound, American Wins Paralympics

The first thing you need to know about Navy Lt. Brad Snyder is that he's a bit intense.If you go to the U.S. Naval Academy, swim competitively, and make the cut for the Navy's elite bomb-disposal...

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Military Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia

Both presidential campaigns are focusing on just a few swing states, and the relatively few remaining undecided voters. One of those states is Virginia, where a key swing constituency is military...

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Vet Walks On New Legs, With A Little Help From Mom

On furlough from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center this summer, 21-year-old Nick Staback lounges on his parents' back porch in Scranton, Pa., taking potshots at sparrows with a replica...

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New York To Allow Voters To Cast Ballots By Affidavit

Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Now many who will cast presidential ballots in New York have been facing a complicated post-storm challenge - where they should vote. Superstorm Sandy has displaced many...

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Veterans Deploy To Northeast After Superstorm Sandy

Among the thousands of volunteers helping the victims of Superstorm Sandy in New York and New Jersey are hundreds of military veterans who have turned out to help.For this group, work like this seems...

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