Taliban

As political divisions hold up talks with the Taliban, Afghan forces are paying the price.

As the United States prepares to leave, thousands of killings remain unprobed, and Washington refuses to talk about them.

Slashing aid, abandoning the peace process, or going it alone will imperil U.S. interests.

The disputed prisoner swap that is delaying peace talks was a last-minute American concession Mike Pompeo said wouldn’t happen.

The Taliban are happily talking with Trump and standing down against U.S. troops, but they say they are "still at war" with Afghan national security forces. 

Airstrikes against Taliban forces threaten to undermine a pact that may be already coming apart.

The Taliban gloat as Afghanistan’s chief executive refuses to accept the election outcome and vows to form his own “inclusive government.”

Pompeo's plan to make peace with the resurgent Taliban is a sad reminder of all that went wrong in Afghanistan—and how it could have been otherwise.

The pact pledging “intra-Afghan” talks is to be signed Feb. 29, but questions remain over whether the deal will last.

How Swat Valley went from basket case to on the mend.

The U.S.-Taliban truce raises some hope—but not while the Afghan government remains a stranger to the talks.

As dissidents are attacked and murdered, critics liken the National Directorate of Security to the brutal intelligence service of the Afghan communists in the 1980s.

Even now, 18 years in, there is no clear way out for the United States. 

The prospect of a revival of talks with the Taliban is persuading no one after two protracted civil wars that have taken up the lives of most Afghans.

Zabulon Simentov has seen it all, and now, like all Afghans, he must embrace a future filled with uncertainty and violence.

A generation of Afghans came of age amid relentless violence. Saturday’s election offers little hope for help.