- Joshua Partlow
- Staff Writer
Joshua Partlow has been the Kabul bureau chief of the Washington Post since the summer of 2009. Before coming to Afghanistan, he worked as the Post’s correspondent in South America, based in Rio de Janeiro, and as a correspondent in Iraq. Partlow joined the Washington Post in 2003 as an intern on the financial desk and later worked for the metro section covering the Maryland suburbs. He grew up in Olympia, Washington
Afghan folk tales take new role in the classroom
Oral stories turned into printed words help students break the bonds of illiteracy
Afghans take hard line on U.S. strike
Afghanistan has even accused Pakistan of exaggerating deadly U.S. strike’s gravity for its own ends.
Pakistan to boycott key meeting
The crisis over a cross-border U.S. airstrike jeopardizes administration’s Afghan exit strategy.
- Afghans say commando unit was attacked before airstrike was called on Pakistan
- NATO airstrike strains U.S.-Pakistan relations
- Karzai announces new areas to come under Afghan control
- Afghanistan to need billions in aid for years, World Bank says
- ‘Slaughterhouse dude’ Chris Hart reflects changing U.S. role in Afghanistan
- Afghan loya jirga backs Karzai’s security plans
- Hamid Karzai calls for partnership with U.S., but with conditions
- On Afghan-Pakistan border, suspicions reign
