- Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- Staff Writer
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor. He was The Post’s national editor and has served as an assistant managing editor. He was bureau chief in Baghdad for the first two years of the Iraq war. He also has been a correspondent in Cairo and Southeast Asia. He the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a best-selling account of the troubled American effort to reconstruct Iraq. A graduate of Stanford University, he joined The Post in 1994 as a reporter on the metropolitan staff.
Gen. John Allen hastily transforming U.S. mission in Afghanistan
Instead of trying to continue large U.S. counterinsurgency operations for as long as he can, Gen. John Allen is accelerating a handover of responsibility to Afghan security forces.
Afghan crisis may follow familiar script
Obama administration officials expected a more serious public reaction to news that a U.S. soldier allegedly had killed 16 civilians on Sunday.
In remembrance of a journalistic giant
A day after his death, Anthony Shadid was hailed as his generation’s “most gifted foreign correspondent.”
A turkey dinner, Baghdad style
As U.S. troops prepare to celebrate their final holiday season in Iraq, Rajiv Chandrasekaran recalls the challenge of acquiring a turkey in Baghdad during the war’s first year.
- In Afghanistan’s Garmser district, praise for a U.S. official’s tireless work
- In Afghanistan, the rise and fall of ‘Little America’
- As drawdown approaches, U.S. commanders in Afghanistan reluctant to leave
- Ahmed Wali Karzai had rebuilt relationship with U.S.
- U.S. projects in war zones are unsustainable, study finds
- Cost of war in Afghanistan will be major factor in troop-reduction talks
- Afghan government’s delays hinder recruitment of Taliban defectors
- With bin Laden’s death, U.S. sees a chance to hasten the end of the Afghan war
