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 ...
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Understanding the Taliban’s New Legal Code

The reinstatement of slavery in Afghanistan removes all doubt that the Taliban intend to subject Afghanistan to a hideously ...
American intervention is often debated as if it were a single moral act, repeated across history with interchangeable results. It is not. The Balkans War vs Afghanistan offers a clearer comparative ...
Pakistan and the Taliban regime have kicked off a new round of negotiations in Istanbul. The talks are ostensibly aimed at preventing further escalation of their violent clashes over the past month.
The Taliban regime is not collapsing - yet. But the strain is unmistakable. What once appeared to be a unified movement is increasingly revealing deep internal divisions that the leadership can no ...