Abubakar Siddique, a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, specializes in the coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the author of The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key To The Future Of Pakistan And Afghanistan.
Hundreds of young Afghans are franticly cleaning the field after building a cricket pitch under the starry sky.
With the Taliban’s violence in Afghanistan rapidly escalating, there is still no clarity on what strategy the United States is likely to adopt to prevent the situation from reaching a tipping point.
Pakistan has always pushed back against accusations that it orchestrates the Taliban’s violent campaign in Afghanistan, instead saying stability in the neighboring country serves its interests.
Lawmakers in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan say Islamic State (IS) militants are carving a new sanctuary in the province by recruiting from parts of the remote mountainous region.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the execution of 11 Taliban commanders following a massive truck bombing in the capital that killed and injured some 500 people.
Afghan officials claim that some Iranian fighters have joined the ranks of Islamic State (IS) militants in Afghanistan.
Severe power cuts during the holy month of Ramadan, when most of Pakistan’s estimated 200 million Muslims refrain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk, have prompted violent protests in the scorching temperatures of summer.
Taliban control over the ancestral village of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has forced schools to close in the rural community.
Pakistani government-sponsored legislation aimed at reforming the archaic governance regime in the country’s beleaguered northwestern tribal areas has stalled because of disagreements within the ruling coalition.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of Afghanistan’s most prominent Islamist leaders, is back in Kabul as part of a comprehensive peace deal with the government after more than two decades of self-imposed exile.
Afghanistan’s Taliban are bankrolling their violent campaign by taking a large cut from the estimated hundreds of millions of dollars that come from the illegal poppy crop grown in the regions they control.
Battlefield exchanges and covert assassinations herald an expanding war between the Afghan Taliban and the Islamic State (IS) militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The repercussions of a Taliban massacre of more than 130 Afghan soldiers at an army base in northern Afghanistan last week are being felt widely.
Residents of North Waziristan, one of the seven districts in western Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas, are sick of long queues, unending questions, lengthy paperwork, and long delays to visit their homeland or even leave it.
Afghan farmers are opposing a government campaign to eradicate their poppy crops in the southern province of Kandahar.
A new report by Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban describes the territory they control across the country.
Officials, lawmakers, and community leaders in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar have accused neighboring Pakistan of incursions and cross-border attacks
Since their emergence in Afghanistan nearly a quarter-century ago, the Afghan people and the world at large have been perplexed by how to respond to the ragtag Taliban militia determined to rule the country as a hard-line Islamist regime.
Over the past 15 years, Pakistan and Afghanistan have frequently accused one another of sheltering hostile Taliban factions responsible for deadly insurgencies and frequent terrorist attacks in the two neighboring countries.
A bomb disposal squad comb the dusty streets of a southern Afghan city for hidden explosives and booby traps.
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