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 ...

Report claims Hibatullah Akhundzada ‘spooked’ by possibility of schism between his hardline base in south, more pragmatic ...

The Taliban leader once warned of a split: A BBC investigation reveals how attitudes to women, the internet and religion are ...

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

Kabul – A speech attributed to Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has laid bare internal differences within ...

Last year was actually one of increased isolation, regional tensions, and strategic failure.

The ongoing protests in Iran have the Taliban in Afghanistan worried. In Iran’s streets, the Taliban see the seeds of their ...

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