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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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

Of late the leftover US inventory, especially the arms and ammunition, has surfaced in the Pak-US bilateral parleys, as substantial quantities of weapons and munitions, especially the sniper rifles ...

Worldcategory· March 21, 2025 American freed by Taliban reunited with wife, former cellmate, in US George Glezmann, an American detained in Afghanistan for more than two years before being ...

Worldcategory· March 21, 2025 American freed by Taliban reunited with wife, former cellmate, in US George Glezmann, an American detained in Afghanistan for more than two years before being ...

The three Americans are Ryan Corbett, who was abducted while on a business trip; George Glezmann, an airline mechanic seized by the Taliban’s intelligence services; and Mahmood Shah Habibi, an Afghan ...