Analysis

Haroun Mir The Taliban have skillfully surprised the Afghan government and NATO’s military commanders in Afghanistan by overrunning the city...

Wilder Alejandro Sanchez The vast majority of literature since the 2001 US-led multinational military operation has focused on the role...

M. Ashraf Haidari I was recently invited to a track 1.5 China-Afghanistan-Pakistan symposium on “Tackling Terrorist Threats, Jointly Safeguarding Regional...

Haroun Mir The meeting of Alice Wells, the top US diplomat for South and Central Asia, with Taliban representatives in...

Nicholas Trickett Much of the current analysis of Russia’s involvement in Afghanistan and engagement with the Taliban has come out...

Nasir Shansab To countless people, Afghanistan appears to be a mystery. A faraway, dry piece of land, perched between forbidding...

Abdul Aziz Haidari Following a three-day ceasefire between the Afghan government and the Taliban, a new momentum has been generated...

Rabia Nasimi Last weekend at least 14 people were killed in a horrific suicide bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul...

Gil Barndollar Last week the White House ordered its top diplomats to seek direct negotiations with the Taliban, the latest...

Johnny Walsh& Courtney Cooper The willingness of the Trump administration to take unorthodox risks has created perhaps the best opportunity...