South Asia

Pulling out all U.S. troops is the administration’s risky plan to pressure Kabul and the Taliban to make peace.

With troops to depart on Sept. 11, the next five months are critical for any chance of peace.

The move will finally end the United States’ longest war.

The country’s rural Dalits are already exploited—and know it can get worse.

Muslims need their own nationwide party, he believes. And he’s going to build it.

Unless it changes tack, the administration is about to make bad situations even worse.

India is a warning about unintended consequences for those looking to regulate Big Tech in the United States.

Decentralizing power can be key to long-term peace.

Let India buy its weapons from Moscow. The real strategic threat is Beijing.

Wesley Morgan’s “The Hardest Place” is embedded reporting at its finest.

But 50 years after independence, an authoritarian turn casts a shadow over the country’s future.

Washington promised to bring liberal democracy to Kabul. It created a bloated and ineffective sector of artificial NGOs instead.

The country says it wants to pivot from hard power to economic power, but its economy begs to differ.

Waning immunity, new virus variants—India’s sharp surge could be caused by any number of alarming factors.

A middle path, with a greater role for India, is still possible—and preferable to either extreme.

As Sri Lanka’s human rights record worsens, the world body tries to hold the country accountable for past crimes.