Host Iran taps regional players as reliable actors; warns against prescriptions ‘imported’ from foreign powers.

Afghanistan frequently experiences earthquakes, particularly in the Hindu Kush region, which lies in a highly active seismic zone, according to the Red Cross.

Pakistan’s newly appointed chief of defense forces has warned Afghanistan’s Taliban government to choose between maintaining ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Afghanistan sits at the crossroads of Central, Western and South Asia, making its stability and development a “strategic imperative” for the whole region, ...

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A struggling regime is caught between countervailing forces.

Zakir Jalali, a senior official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote on X that moving beyond purely security-focused approaches and recognizing Afghanistan’s constructive role in regional ...

The final report this week from the special inspector general for Afghanistan identified $26 billion in waste, fraud, and ...

The current conflict is the most serious since the Taliban’s return in 2021. Yet it is also a logical extension of the ...

The fighters led by the CIA found themselves spiraling into despair because of what they saw as bureaucratic neglect and abandonment by the U.S. government. Among their ranks was Rahmanullah Lakanwal, ...

The foreign minister in Afghanistan's Taliban-run government says that the actions of an Afghan national charged in the ...

An asylum-seeker who fled Afghanistan last year after being persecuted by the Taliban is at risk of being deported back to ...