Peter Graff

Position: Bureau Chief, Afghanistan
Reuters Afghanistan Bureau Chief Peter Graff has reported from more than two dozen countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, the ex-Soviet Union and the Middle East. He took up his post in Kabul in April, 2009, after a stint in Baghdad as deputy bureau chief, Iraq. From 2002-07 he was based in London. A Russian speaker, Peter joined Reuters in Moscow in 1998. He was based in Nairobi from 1996-98 covering Africa for Time Magazine and The Boston Globe, and in Tbilisi from 1994-96, covering Chechnya and the Caucasus for AFP and The Financial Times.

Articles

Afghan schools reopen after swine flu shut down November 22, 01:07pm EST 

By Hamid Shalizi KABUL, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Afghan children returned to school wearing medical face masks on Sunday after a three-week closure ordered by the government to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus. Schools will be open for 20 days so pupils ...  Full Article 

Blog Posts

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Will voters in your town believe Karzai is worth dying for?

“We’ve heard all of these sentiments before. If you compare his last inauguration to this inauguration, you’ll see there’s almost a 90 percent overlap,” was how one Western official in Kabul put it.  Full Article | Comments [8] 

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Can the West salvage Karzai's reputation?

The election was the sort of travesty that can’t be easily swept under a rug. A U.N.-backed probe concluded that nearly a third of votes cast for Karzai were fake.  Full Article | Comments [5] 

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When is a coalition not a coalition?

How can you tell when U.S. forces in Afghanistan are operating alone? When they call it "the coalition". That’s not a joke. It's just how things work in Afghanistan, where two separate forces with two ...  Full Article | Comments [14]