April 10, 2008 Telegraph
	US envoy may challenge for Afghan presidency -- The Afghan-born US Ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, has signalled that he will run for the presidency of Afghanistan in elections next year.
April 10, 2008 The New York Times
	Afghans Hold Secret Trials for Men That U.S. Detained -- Dozens of Afghan men who were previously held by the United States at Bagram Air Base and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are now being tried here in secretive Afghan criminal proceedings based mainly on allegations forwarded by the American military.
February 29, 2008 The Guardian
	Afghanistan mission close to failing - US -- After six years of US-led military support and billions of pounds in aid, security in Afghanistan is "deteriorating" and President Hamid Karzai's government controls less than a third of the country, America's top intelligence official has admitted.
February 22, 2008 TIME
	Iran Raises the Heat in Afghanistan -- Afghanistan is in a tough spot. The country is reliant on the U.S. and NATO for its security and, at the same time, shares its longest land border with Iran.
February 21, 2008 The Star
	Economy a key to Afghan peace -- Building Afghanistan's economy and promoting "national reconciliation" have a greater chance of achieving a lasting peace than the use of military force, according to a military study of the parallels between the NATO mission and the Soviet invasion of the 1980s.
February 18, 2008 International Herald Tribune
	140 killed in 2 days of bombings, Afghanistan's deadliest span since 2001 -- The back-to-back bombings in Kandahar province could serve as a warning that insurgents have turned to collateral civilian deaths to further weaken the Kabul government.
February 17, 2008 Reuters
	AFGHANISTAN: Mass deportation from Iran may cause crisis, official warns -- The Afghan government has once again called upon the Iranian government to suspend its deportation of thousands of Afghans living in Iran illegally until after winter to avoid a humanitarian crisis.
February 13, 2008 Reuters
	Defeat a "real possibility" in Afghanistan: Ashdown -- NATO is in disarray and the West faces defeat in Afghanistan unless it overhauls its counter-insurgency and reconstruction strategy, Britain's Paddy Ashdown wrote in an article published on Wednesday.
February 06, 2008 Reuters
	Afghan row may make NATO two-tiered alliance: Gates -- NATO risks a split between countries that are willing to fight and those that are not because some European states refuse to send more troops to Afghanistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday.
February 02, 2008 Pahjwok Afghan News
	Pakistan, India jockeying for influence in Afghanistan -- Nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan are competing for influence in Afghanistan, says a report prepared for US lawmakers and Congressional committees.
February 01, 2008 BBC
	Why the Afghan Taleban feel confident -- In Afghanistan, the Taleban now claim to have influence across most of the country and have extended their area of control from their traditional heartland in the south...One of their commanders in Wardak, Mullah Hakmatullah, said they...have increasing support because of the corruption of the administration.
January 31, 2008 BBC News
	Afghanistan's future 'in peril' -- Two more Western reports say that international efforts are failing to make Afghanistan a stable state.