The Pakistani Army has set a January 25 deadline for the evacuation of Tirah, a valley of some 150,000 people. The strategic area is located along the border with Afghanistan and is a stronghold of ...

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

US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would “be there” if the United States “ever needed ...

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

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 ...

Donald Trump says non US troops served away from the frontline in Afghanistan. It’s an outrage to the hundreds killed in ...

The Interior Ministry of the Taliban government confirmed on January 7 that ongoing clashes between officials of a ...

As Afghanistan enters 2026, deep fractures inside the Taliban leadership threaten the regime's grip on power in part due to ...

The UK on Thursday said Donald Trump was "wrong to diminish" NATO's role in Afghanistan after the US president suggested allied troops were not on the front lines, sparking outrage in the country ...

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

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

It is a sign of the times that the word “revolution” now refers to something different from what it once did. The term does not, in this brief column, imply any prior value judgment, be it negative or ...