In a surprising and unexpected move, the United States recently removed the names of three top leaders of the Haqqani Network ...

The international environment is unsettled. There are so many terror threats, domestic and foreign, that it is difficult to ...

In the old and new Great Game, Afghanistan has held a central position. Peter Hopkirk, in his pathbreaking book The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, chronicled the 19th-century ...

In the two months since Donald Trump became president, the Taliban has ratcheted up its efforts to ingratiate itself with the ...

Harsha Kakar Afghanistan recently released a US citizen, George Glezmann, held by them for over the past two years. He was arrested while touring Afghanistan in Dec 2022, an arrest which the US ...

Despite an estimated $1 to $3 trillion in natural reserves believed to reside in Afghanistan, the Trump administration’s decision not to normalize relations with Taliban leaders is the proper one.

The Taliban seized Afghanistan following Biden's disastrous withdrawal in 2021. Now, the Trump administration has dropped millions of dollars in bounties targeting Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani.

US president Donald Trump has given Taliban-controlled Afghanistan the same tariff as the UK, despite the Central Asian country applying a levy on imported US goods five times larger than Britain's.