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.
After cooperating with the United States and its NATO allies in stabilizing Afghanistan for more than a decade, there are signs now that Moscow is opening a new front against Washington in Afghanistan following its actions in Syria and Ukraine.
The heinous murder of a teenage boy by kidnappers has shaken Afghanistan and seemingly united the government and insurgents in condemning the atrocity and promising justice.
Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. special presidential envoy and ambassador in Afghanistan, dissects some of the early mistakes Washington made in Afghanistan, which led to the Taliban reemerging as a major force threatening Afghan stability.
Zalmay Khalilzad, a key figure in U.S. President George W. Bush’s war against terrorism, says Islamabad’s support of the Afghan Taliban after the demise of their regime in 2001 is the ‘mother of all problems’ confronting Afghanistan today.
In a repeat of the country’s checkered history, the Pakistani military and civilian leadership appear to be at loggerheads over power with the former using corruption to force the latter out of office.
By retraining, reinforcing, and re-equipping troops, Afghanistan is working hard to save its largest province from falling to the Taliban, whose offensive this year appears to aim at adding more territory to half of the province they already control.
Despite a plummeting approval rating, allies of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani say their leader is capable of handling multiple political and security challenges and the debate over the Loya Jirga assembly is a bid by opponents to further destabilize the national unity government.
Unemployment is leading youth in southern Afghanistan to question whether the time, effort and money they invested in getting education was worth the trouble after some are unable to find work years after graduation.
The residents of Lashkar Gah, the capital of restive southern Helmand Province, are bracing for a possible Taliban seizure as the insurgents now appears to be inching closer to surrounding the city in a virtual siege.
A dispute over the removal of huge portraits of the first vice president in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif might renew the rivalry between two strongmen who attempted cooperation and competition to shape northern Afghanistan.
More than a year after its emergence in Afghanistan, the Islamic State appears to be on the run from its last stronghold. A strange alliance of often hostile players in the Afghan war acted to prevent the group, now controlling large swathes of Syria and Iraq, from establishing a foothold in Afghanistan.
For beleaguered Afghan civilians, life on a remote Afghan frontline goes on despite the threat of insurgent attacks and daily battles between government forces and the Taliban.
With the advent of Afghanistan’s traditional spring fighting season, Taliban factions have begun fighting each other in an apparent bid to crush their opponents.
Pakistan's admission that it is housing Taliban leadership and retains influence over their secretive movement appears to be part of Islamabad's effort to retain its status as the dominant player in the Afghan war.
A senior Pakistani official in charge of foreign policy says the Afghan Taliban leadership and their families are living in his country.
Lawmakers and tribal leaders have opposed handing over certain contested regions in southern Afghanistan to the Taliban to facilitate their participation in peace talks with the Afghan government.
Pakistan's effort to counter a simmering separatist insurgency in southwestern Balochistan Province has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians, but their plight remains invisible as they receive little attention from national authorities and international aid groups.
Officials in eastern Afghanistan are giving the impression that after months of military operations the Islamic State militant group is facing defeat in its last Afghan stronghold.
Days after his supporters claimed Afghanistan's first vice president is staying away from government business over power sharing, Abdul Rashid Dostum says he is performing his official duties.
A former Afghan communist declared a war 'hero' for battling anti-Soviet mujahedin guerillas is now leading the fight against Taliban forces on one of Afghanistan's most dangerous frontlines.
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