In ending the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. belittled and sidelined its partner in favor of engaging with the enemy. The ...

It is the only one in the geographic space in which it is located that has kept religion out of governance. That was not supposed to happen since it was religion that led to the founding of the state ...

The Taliban would provide the security. And guess who did not come to dinner -- Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. The Biden administration took office in January 2020 and debated about Afghanistan.

Trump’s government is breaking with its longstanding policy of not talking with groups it deems to be terrorist organizations ...

After years of promising never to abandon its close ally, Washington did just that with South Vietnam in Paris and the ...

Iftikhar Firdous, a leading Islamabad-based security expert and founder of Khorasan Diary, a platform tracking armed groups ...

The president’s praise of the Pakistani government for its role in capturing a “top terrorist” signaled a possible ...

For his next magic trick, President Donald Trump is determined to end three wars: one is in Gaza, the second in Ukraine and ...

In a dramatic confrontation that has reverberated far beyond Washington, the explosive Oval Office exchange on Feb. 28 ...

Under Trump, the US talked directly to the Taliban, without the Afghan government in the room. This sidelined the Afghan ...

In the final days of the Afghan Republic, Trump’s top negotiators arrived in Kabul with a blunt message for President Ashraf Ghani: step down and accommodate the Taliban, as the United States wanted ...

sidelining Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the same way he cut former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani out of talks with the Taliban. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (second left ...