Analysis

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...

The Times - The Taliban bomb-maker and I smiled earnestly at one another as we sat together, drinking tea and...

By Samuel Ramani On July 16, 2018, the Russian President’s special envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, announced that the Russian...

Former President Hamid Karzai’ interview with Global Times GT: In Western opinion, Afghanistan is a heartland of contention among major...