Carlotta Gall

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing last month after visiting the Saudi consulate in Turkey.

In an address to the nation, President Trump announced he would be sending more American troops to fight in Afghanistan, the longest military conflict the U.S. has ever been involved in.

The U.S. military presence in Afghanistan is in its 16th consecutive year, and 2017 is proving to be a particularly deadly one.

A new commission in Tunisia is investigating allegations of torture and police brutality, and victims are lining up to testify.

While other journalists rushed to debunk Sy Hersh's latest story, Carlotta Gall of the New York Times says there's a lot to follow up on - and at least one detail rings true. 

Carlotta Gall talks about reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan since shortly after 9/11 and gives a sweeping account of a war brought by well-intentioned American leaders against an enemy they barely understood and could not truly engage. Her book The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014, combines personal accounts of battles and betrayals with moving portraits of ordinary Afghanis who have endured war for more than a decade.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani spoke Monday in response to the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. He defended his government in its claims that they did not know that Osama bin Laden was in the country, strongly denying that there had been any collusion between Pakistan and al-Qaida to shelter bin Laden. The New York Times' Carlotta Gall reports from Islamabad.

Questions over whether the surge in Afghanistan is working are rising again, as are insurgents in northern Afghanistan, just as a new report out by the Pentagon highlights some progress in the south. One of the larger questions: Is that progress in one region coming at the expense of progress in others?