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At the age of 27, after 14 years of marriage, with seven children and a husband 30 years older than she was, a husband who was addicted to opium, who once deprived her of food because she gave birth to a girl and not a boy, who beat her when she took too long to conceive, who pulled out her hair and knocked out her teeth to make her too ugly to remarry, who beat her again when he couldn’t find money for opium because he had spent it on phone cards for the mobile to call his lovers — after 14 years, Abada had had enough.
A Medvac Pilot in Afghanistan, Jesse Russell faces down danger and horror to help the wounded.
Yearlong deployments for mothers of young children are seriously reshaping American family life.
Ramrod is a small military base at the edge of the Red Desert in Kandahar. Not a village in sight, just sand to every horizon. M., a young project manager for DynCorp International, sat with me in her office and bunk, the inside of a small white shipping container. The base is expanding every day.
Four months pregnant with her first child, war correspondent Elizabeth Rubin took an assignment on the front lines of Afghanistan…
In late 2007, correspondent Elizabeth Rubin embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, a remote area close to the Pakistan border and a known hide out for insurgents. She spent two months with Battle Company under the command of Capt. Dan Kearney, and wrote a seminal piece about the experience for the New York Timesmagazine. Nine months later Rubin returned to the valley and, on both trips, captured some extraordinary video scenes, including a deadly ambush on Kearney's men after U.S.airstrikes on a nearby village.
Participating by remote connection from New York City, Elizabeth Rubin talked about her recent article in The New York Times Magazine about her trip to Afghanistan where she spent two months embedded with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, Battle Company.
WE TUMBLED OUT of two Black Hawks onto a shrub-dusted mountainside. It was a windy, cold October evening. A half-moon illuminated the tall pines and peaks. Through night-vision goggles the soldiers and landscape glowed in a blurry green-and-white static…
One afternoon this past summer, I shared a picnic of fresh mangos and plums with Abdul Baqi, an Afghan Taliban fighter in his 20’s fresh from the front in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan…
Karzai in His Labyrinth
The New York Times Magazine
The Afghan President is isolated and distrusted, and even if he manages to be re-elected this month, that’s not likely to change…