NATO awaits Afghan force pledges

NATO member countries have supplied only 85 per cent of the troops they've pledged and ground commanders want more, given the intensity of Taliban resistance in the south. In the meantime, things like nation-building and reconstruction will have to wait.

Afghanistan five years after 9/11

This story looks at whether the resources poured into finding Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders should have perhaps been spent on trying to secure the south of Afghanistan.

NATO's mission under pressure

Afghanistan is a war, not an 'enhanced peace support operation,' say military officials. And to win it, more resources will be required. Success means not only winning battles for territory, but having the bodies to hold it.

On Monday, Iran's press monitoring agency shut down the newspaper Shargh (East) over a cartoon it deemed "insulting" to the government.