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ON THE GROUND
Dispatches from TIME's correspondents in and around the war zone

Tim McGirk in Kabul
• Leaving Kandahar, Sadder but Wiser
• Did Iran Help al-Qaeda Escape?
• Danger still lurks for U.S. troops
• Sleeping in Mullah Omar's bed
• Who can the Taliban surrender to?

Paul Quinn-Judge in Khost
• Afghanistan's clannish chieftains are back
• No Peace in the Valley

Terry McCarthy in Kabul
• The battle against poverty is only beginning
• Inside Kunduz: A State of Seige
• Three Journalists Killed in Afghanistan
• Taloqan falls to the Northern Alliance
• Pakistan's Radical Academies

Matthew Forney in Tora Bora
• Letter from Tora Bora
• Inside the Tora Bora caves
• Carjackings, shootouts and Banditry

Alex Perry in Mazar-i-Sharif
• Inside the battle at Qala-i-Jangi
• Mazar-i-Sharif standoff ends
• Afghanistan's next humanitarian crisis
• Mazar-i-Sharif: American G.I.s battle Taliban
• Sexual Liberation, Afghan-Style

Anthony Davis with the Northern Alliance
• The War Gets Personal
• The Road to Kabul
• One Less Warrior

Hannah Beech in Northern Afghanistan
• Afghanistan's Child Soldiers
• It's Not Easy Being a Warlord
• Afghan Women's Shrouded Future

SUBCONTINENTAL DRIFT
TIME's Aparisim Ghosh on South Asia's state of crisis
• South Asian of the Year: Pervez Musharraf
• Pakistan finds itself exposed
• A second chance for U.S.-Pakistan
• India's War Dividend
• Pakistan's History Repeats Itself
• Post-War, A Dim Future for South Asia

VIEWPOINT
Leaders and opinion-makers speak out on the war against terrorism
• India is ignored in the war on terror
• Anwar Ibrahim: Who Hijacked Islam?
• Today's Friend, Tomorrow's Mess
• Albert Cheng: The U.S. Is Not Us
• A Cold War Redux?

THE CAMPAIGN: LATEST UPDATES
• How the U.S. killed the wrong Afghans
• Dead men talking
• Danger still lurks for U.S. troops
• What's become of al-Qaeda?
• Into the Heart of Taliban Country
• Endgame Raises Tough Questions

AL-QAEDA
On the trail of the world's most wanted terrorists
• Did Iran Help al-Qaeda Escape?
• What's become of al-Qaeda?
• How al-Qaeda recruits
• Hunting Osama bin Laden
• The perils of partial victory
• What Is al-Qaeda Without Its Boss?

THE TALIBAN
What happens to Afghanistan's former rulers now?
• John Walker: Bail Denied
• Why Guantanamo has Europe hopping mad
• Scrutinizing camp X-Ray
• Why the Bad Guys Get Away
• Into the Heart of Taliban Country
• 'American Taliban' to Face Life in Prison

THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE
Can the victors maintain order in post-war Afghanistan?
• Afghan clash signals Karzai's weakness
• Afghanistan's clannish chieftains are back
• No Peace in the Valley
• Why some Afghans already miss the Taliban
• The Northern Alliance loses traction

PAKISTAN
Stuck on the border of chaos
• India and Pakistan near conflict
• Anthrax in Islamabad?
• The World's Toughest Job
• The two faces of Islam
• A Nation with Nukes
• Hijackers or martyrs?

PHOTO ESSAYS
The conflict in pictures
• Afghan Women: Through the Ages
• Beneath the Veil
• The Battle for Konduz
• Pakistan: A Country Divided
• In the Taliban's Heartland
• Life on the Lines
• Afghan Refugees' Burden of Sanctuary

SPECIAL FEATURES
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COVERS GALLERY

Closing
in on
bin Laden
12/24/01

Last Days
of the
Taliban
12/17/01

Battle
at
Mazar-i-Sharif
12/10/01

Afghan
Women
12/03/01

Hunting
Osama
bin Laden
11/26/01

The Afghan
Way of
War
11/19/01

Al-Qaeda's
Global
Reach
11/12/01

The
Two-Front
War
11/05/01

Anthrax
Scare
Goes
Global
10/29/01

The
Conflict
Begins
10/22/01

Facing
the Fury
10/15/01

Preparing
for Battle
10/08/01

Target:
Bin Laden
10/01/01

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