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An Afghan national who is on the U.S. terror watchlist is back in custody Friday following his release after entering the country illegally at the southern border.

The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy Opium Wars, bin Laden, and Mujahideen “When the operation started in 1979, this region grew opium only for regional markets and produced no heroin. Within two years, however, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world’s top heroin producer. . . . CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax.” —Alfred McCoy, author, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia A Soviet “Vietnam” By far the most influe...

Share This: A group of Afghan officials led by the chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah, have made their way to Moscow for a one-day conference that will also include delegates from Russia, Pakistan, China, and the United States. But the conference, which is being marketed as a supplement to the Doha peace talks and a necessary step in the path forward for Afghanistan, is in fact, a kind of international auction. The sought-after prize? Access to the resource-rich regions of the war-torn country. The only question is who will be the highest bidder. Overh...