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.
Villages in a remote eastern region of Afghanistan complain of extreme atrocities by the Taliban and Islamic State militants.
The Taliban are seen as gradually overwhelming government forces in a northern Afghan province still the scene of one of the toughest battles this year.
With mounting Taliban attacks in the Afghan capital, President Ashraf Ghani appears to be giving up on hopes that neighboring Pakistan will deliver peace in Afghanistan.
Afghan Taliban leaders are working toward resolving their differences amid a leadership struggle that threatens to divide their largely united movement into competing factions.
Afghanistan's top military leader is confident his force will defeat the Taliban and allied rebels in a northern province near Central Asia.
Former warlord and Afghanistan's first vice president is expected to lead an offensive against Taliban insurgents to reclaim territory in a strategic northern province bordering Central Asia.
An exiled leader of Pakistan's beleaguered Baluch minority has apparently shunned Islamabad's efforts to persuade him to end years of exile in Britain.
Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban movement appears to be split over negotiations with Kabul. The development might signal an end to the Taliban's two-decade-long relationship with Pakistan.
Civilians in a distant mountainous region in eastern Afghanistan say they are afraid of the unmanned airplanes constantly hovering in the skies.
Insurgents are threatening to overrun a hydroelectric dam vital for irrigation and electricity generation across southern Afghanistan.
Militants from Pakistan are leading an offensive by Islamic State that apparently aims to dislodge the Taliban from the strategic eastern province.
In a bid to recapture lost ground, Afghan security forces have launched a multi-pronged offensive against the Talban in the southern province of Helmand.
Political and security failings have helped the Taliban and allied Central Asian militants to capture vast swathes of territory in a major northeastern province.
Provincial Muslim clerics speak out against the Taliban for targeting Afghan civilians and security forces.
In an open letter to the Islamic State militant group leader, the Afghan Taliban have urged him to refrain from launching a parallel insurrection in Afghanistan.
In a significant development, top Afghan officials and Taliban representatives are meeting in Norway this week.
Tens of thousands of residents of Afghanistan's restive northern Kunduz Province have been displaced or face oppression at the hands of militants or pro-government militias.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has sought to answer detractors over efforts to cultivate a cooperative relationship with neighboring Pakistan.
Major political parties took to the streets to force the administration of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province to step down after controversial local elections.
A Pakistani provincial government, once claiming to be the leading proponent of election reforms, is in hot water after controversial local elections were marked by violence and irregularities.
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