Today GlobalPost begins a special report titled Life, Death and the Taliban. It is a series of stories from the ground in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a multimedia project that includes video, photography, strong reporting and writing and an interactive historical ...Read More
Our Maggie was a truly international dog, a canine diplomat of sorts who had lived all over the world. A big, old yellow Labrador who lived to eat, Maggie begged on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide when I was based ...Read More
Listen in to the journey I took through Afghanistan and Pakistan on The World starting tonight. A special four-part series of radio reports titled "Inside the Taliban" will be aired over the next four days on The World, which is ...Read More
I know that road just outside of Kabul in the Logar Province. I know the kids who walk to school on it every morning. I know their faces were full of hope and glee when I saw them two years ...Read More
Iason Athanasiadis was released, as you can read at the top of GlobalPost. Iason, a freelance journalist who had been writing for GlobalPost in Iran, was detained without charge for nearly three weeks by the Iranian government. He was picked up ...Read More
At GlobalPost, the most celebrated work our journalists do is ground truth. Being there on the ground for the story is what matters. And Iason Athanasiadis, a freelance writer and contributor to GlobalPost who was detained while working in Iran last ...Read More
It didn't surprise me to hear that New York Times reporter David Rohde plotted a careful escape from his Taliban captors by scaling a wall and running to freedom with his translator, Tahir Ludin. And it didn't surprise me that ...Read More
The events unfolding in Tehran are straight out of rock n' roll. So you gotta check out the piece on the Tehran underground band "Hypernova" by our Deputy Editor Freya Petersen, who has been following the group and what it has ...Read More
BOSTON - Good to be home. I just got back from the trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan late last night. And on the plane ride home I wrote the piece that leads GlobalPost right now. Talking with the Taliban ...Read More
In Kabul, your life depends on a good driver. And there’s no one better than Ramazan. For almost 30 years, Ahmad Gul Ramazan, 66, and always known simply as “Ramazan,” has been the legendary driver of correspondents in Afghanistan and we were ...Read More
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