Afghanistan

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Every winter, Kabul’s skies turn black — and children die.

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Civilian deaths mount as Washington tries to pressure the Taliban in peace talks.

A new biography of Richard Holbrooke is a portrait of an era when the United States was at the center of the world—and assumed it should be.

Host to one of the world’s largest refugee populations, the country is trying to figure out how to push migrants out. But that will mean sending many Afghans back to a country they’ve never lived in.

Access to employment and education are local priorities. Here’s how the West can work with the Taliban to ensure those rights.

Afghan militia members driven from their homes square off against Uighur exiles.

That’s what the CIA said when it had Osama bin Laden in its sights after 9/11. Instead, America veered off into Iraq, and the result is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who appeared in a new video this week.

Three Democrats running for the White House fought in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—and they came back with very different ideas.

The war is not yet over and its outcome is not yet certain.

Michael Waltz, Congress’s first Green Beret, talks about the new Space Force and America’s budding commercial launch industry.

The endless conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East are ritual, not strategy.

Thousands of women have set off on their own for Turkey, but harassment from Afghan men often follows them to their new country.

Officials say it's time to shift diplomatic resources to countering China and Russia.

Beijing may be safeguarding its interests with the Taliban.

Negotiations involving a broad group that represents all of Afghanistan—not just its senior politicians—are the only way to achieve a lasting settlement.

There’s no substance behind arguments that the U.S. president is using his unpredictability to the country’s advantage.