In a surprising and unexpected move, the United States recently removed the names of three top leaders of the Haqqani Network ...

In the old and new Great Game, Afghanistan has held a central position. Peter Hopkirk, in his pathbreaking book The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, chronicled the 19th-century ...

In the two months since Donald Trump became president, the Taliban has ratcheted up its efforts to ingratiate itself with the ...

Of late the leftover US inventory, especially the arms and ammunition, has surfaced in the Pak-US bilateral parleys, as substantial quantities of weapons and munitions, especially the sniper rifles ...

He was accompanied by former U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last month that "George’s release is a positive and constructive step. It is also a ...

Zalmay Khalilzad, confirmed Hall's release with a photograph of her and said she would “soon be on her way home.” He posted that she was “now in the care of our friends, the Qataris in Kabul ...

The fact that allies were never privy to the side deals struck by US negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad with the Taliban is a case in point, just as the South Vietnamese were cut out of Kissinger’s ...

In a move without precedent, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has replaced FBI Director Kash Patel as the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). This marks ...