Jere Van Dyk is the author of "In Afghanistan" and a former reporter for The New York Times. In the early 1980s he covered the Afghan-Soviet war, living with the Afghan rebels. He received a Pulitzer ...

University alumnus Jere Van Dyk trekked deep into Afghanistan’s Taliban-controlled border with Pakistan in February 2008 and, four days later, found himself staring at a video camera with a gun ...