In the first weeks of his second term, US President Donald Trump bypassed Israel to try to strike a deal directly with Hamas ...

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

The Taliban seized Afghanistan following Biden's disastrous withdrawal in 2021. Now, the Trump administration has dropped millions of dollars in bounties targeting Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani.

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 ...

Harsha Kakar Afghanistan recently released a US citizen, George Glezmann, held by them for over the past two years. He was arrested while touring Afghanistan in Dec 2022, an arrest which the US ...

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 ...

Officials met Hamas three times, breaking with a policy against contacting a group the U.S. considers a terrorist ...