South Asia

Danish Siddiqui’s death should have been a moment of national unity. The prime minister made it the opposite.

In some Afghan towns, women are fleeing ahead of insurgent takeovers.

Foreign Policy asked nine global experts for their takes on the administration’s agenda.

Bamiyan, home to the Taliban-wrecked Buddhas, might be the start of Afghanistan’s pushback against the insurgents.

A journalist hacked by Pegasus says he will survive, but Indian democracy may not.

Beijing has its eyes set on using Afghanistan as a strategic corridor once U.S. troops are out of the way.

Meth is even more profitable than heroin—and is turbocharging the insurgency.

Since the war began, America has had one lens for Central Asia. What happens now?

Beijing would have preferred U.S. troops to stay.

Social equality needs to be more than a coat of paint.

The European allies that fought alongside the United States will face the fallout as thousands of refugees flee the Taliban, giving fodder to far-right parties.

After decades of supporting the Afghan government, New Delhi is planning for its potential fall.

Afghanistan’s foreign minister on what may await his country after the U.S. withdrawal.

The president said this withdrawal will be nothing like what happened in 1975, but there are some striking parallels.

How to make sense of Washington’s longest war ever.

Afghanistan will get an injection of contractor support and planes for its beleaguered Air Force.