The most worrisome flash point in South Asia today lies not between the nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan but to the west, along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A simmering conflict ...

Factional rivalries, tribal loyalties, authoritarian rule and hardline policies are testing Afghan regime cohesion ...

At first glance, the criminal code appears to be a typical legal framework. But the state’s goal is not to protect citizens, ...

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

A Taliban fighter stands next to vehicles destroyed during an airstrike, following a temporary ceasefire, amid the conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar ...

French photographer Elise Blanchard visited doctors, nurses and patients in Afghanistan's rural areas. After decades of war ...

Afghanistan and Pakistan are locked in escalating conflict over the Durand Line — a colonial-era border both sides dispute. The Taliban refuses to recognize the boundary, instead promoting a vision of ...

Pakistan was one of the first and most vocal supporters of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after the Taliban retook Kabul in August 2021. Islamabad saw the fall of the Ashraf Ghani-led Republic as ...

The sudden but vicious Afghanistan-Pakistan border clashes have fuelled speculation that at the heart of the conflict lies US President Donald Trump's desire to return the Bagram military base to US ...

Trump had told Fox News in an interview that the U.S. had "never really asked anything of" its NATO allies.

Prince Harry criticized Trump for downplaying NATO allies’ role in Afghanistan, citing shared sacrifice and the war’s human ...

The US president's praise follows his claim that allied forces avoided the front lines during the Afghanistan conflict.