Afghanistan

Sowing doubts about Washington is a potent weapon for Beijing. But even after Afghanistan, U.S. strategy in Asia remains intact.

In 2008, an Afghan interpreter saved Matt Zeller’s life. Now he wants to return the favor.

The Afghan government is imposing punishments that have no comparison elsewhere in the Islamic world.

Here are three steps the Biden administration can take today.

Mansoor Ahmad Khan tells FP that Afghanistan is more stable now, and he denies any Pakistani support for the militant group.

The Taliban say modern education is of no use as the country heads toward economic meltdown and starvation.

Qatar’s assistant foreign minister discussed the Taliban, the need for a clear road map, and Afghanistan’s uncertain future.

Without urgent assistance, nearly the entire country could sink into poverty, the United Nations Development Program warns.

Supporting anti-Taliban fighters will spark a return to civil war, antagonize Pakistan, and draw the United States back into a conflict it sought to put behind it.

Even if the Taliban wanted to serve as a safe haven, there’s no reason to think terrorists would want to take up the offer.

The Afghan army’s collapse shows American forces are using the wrong approach.

A month after the U.S. withdrawal, Afghans who worked for the U.S. war effort are in hiding. Few see a way out.

Centcom will be flying blind for years in Afghanistan—and likely missing terrorists while killing innocents, experts say.

After the fall of Kabul, some countries are opening their doors. Afghans who have been stuck in Malaysia and Indonesia for years are hoping that they will not be forgotten.

The country’s mineral wealth remains largely theoretical.

Lawmakers raked Gen. Milley, Gen. McKenzie, and Defense Secretary Austin over the coals for the chaotic end to the war in Afghanistan.

The jihadi group’s continued rise has left the United States with only bad options.

Fighters, politicians, and generals will try to ape the Taliban’s playbook while the extremists sleepwalk into civil war.

Jens Stoltenberg weighs in on AUKUS, Zapad, and the fate of Afghanistan after 20 years of bitter toil.