While India and Afghanistan are building closer ties, tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have reached a boiling point in recent months, triggering fears of a Pakistan-Taliban war.
The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...
Giving a detailed account of Pakistan’s generosity towards Afghanistan, he nonetheless asserted that Pakistan would not allow its citizens to be targeted by the TTP, which is alleged to enjoy ...
Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past. In the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces, and in the years in between has been ruled by ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is co-founder and CEO of the Friends of Afghan Women Network More than three years have passed ...
The head of the World Food Programme in Afghanistan says the agency can only feed half the millions of Afghans in need after cuts in international aid and an impending freeze in US foreign funding.