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 ...

With the return of former American Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalizad to negotiations in Afghanistan and the Trump ...

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

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 ...

U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants "direct talks" with Iran in order to allay its unease about a new nuclear deal. "I ...

After last month’s meeting over the release of American airline mechanic George Glezmann, both the Taliban and Trump’s former envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, who flew to Kabul to get ...