The Taliban and Afghanistan’s neighbors are not able to stabilize the country. Only US influence can provide the right carrots and sticks.

Traveling through Afghanistan meant constantly navigating invisible lines, limits, and unspoken rules that shaped every movement. Taliban-controlled areas surrounded the cities, and even a few ...

Differences among the Taliban are natural; the movement has various power centres. While Mullah Akhundzada may reign supreme, Siraj Haqqani has considerable power, being the scion of veteran ...

Interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani has weirdly become the unlikely champion of what passes for ‘reform,’ if such a word can ...

Aghanistan is a country most of us would rather forget. I learnt that the hard way a couple of years ago when I returned there and suggested that the West should re-engage with the Taliban. Few wanted ...

In 2021, the Taliban took full control of Afghanistan, resulting in an ongoing humanitarian crisis in which human rights, ...

Since the Taliban's return in August 2021, Afghan women's basic freedoms have been systematically curtailed, transforming ...

ISLAMABAD: Hours after the arrest of activist and lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband Hadi Ali Chattha on Friday ...

For more than three years, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have projected an image of seamless unity: one leader, one command, one vision.

There’s been an uptick in attacks targeting Chinese nationals – including the latest, a suicide bombing at a Chinese restaurant in Kabul.

The blast at Kabul's 'Chinese Noodle' restaurant on 19 January 2026 did more than just claim lives; it exposed the fragile ...

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