INTERVIEWS
Wazhmah Osman is an Afghan-American filmmaker and scholar. She is the co-director of "Postcards from Tora Bora" and the author of "Television and the Afghan Culture Wars."
Kathy Gannon is the Associated Press's Senior Correspondent in Afghanistan. She has been covering the region since 1988, and continues to do so today.
In 2009, a small outpost in Eastern Afghanistan was surrounded by over 300 Taliban fighters. Andrew Bundermann was in command at the Battle, one of the fiercest in the Afghan War.
Mahyar Entezari is a Lecturer in Persian Language and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania. His field of study focuses around the portrayal of Afghanistan in Cinema.
Ellen Laipson has spent 25 years working in government in positions such as the National Intelligence Council, Foreign Policy Board, and CIA External Advisory Panel.
Andrew Watkins has worked for the UN, US State Department, and several NGOs in Afghanistan. He is now an an Afghanistan analyst at Crisis Group.
Major John Spencer has served over 25 years in the US Army with multiple combat deployments. He currently works for the Modern War Institute at West Point.
Helena Zeweri is an Afghan American cultural anthropologist who studies forced migration, humanitarianism, and the Afghan Diaspora. She also works with the Afghan-American artists and writers association
TIMELINE OF THE WAR