An Afghan farmer works on a poppy field in the Khogyani district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan
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What Went Wrong in Afghanistan

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Militants from the al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) celebrate the group's declaration of an Islamic state, in Fallujah
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A General's Regrets

Review: Daniel P. Bolger's 'Why We Lost'

Wayne Hsieh
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Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani