From outside Morocco, it seemed as if the king and his government had made a fast, credible adjustment to the local ‘Arab Spring’ protests. But from the inside, it doesn’t look that way

What will become of Afghanistan when Nato’s combat troops withdraw? We need to make sense of the country’s 20th-century history, which is not as we thought it to be, and underreports the internal division between deeply conservative country dwellers and urban modernisers