Repeated negotiations have failed to bridge the divide between Pakistan’s security demands and the Taliban regime’s denials. With UN reports raising concerns over TTP activity, continued border violence threatening lives and trade,
Repeated negotiations have failed to bridge the divide between Pakistan’s security demands and the Taliban regime’s denials. With UN reports raising concerns over TTP activity, continued border violence threatening lives and trade,
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Five years after the Taliban’s return to power, emerging resistance groups are reporting attacks across Afghanistan, including in the south. Political exclusion, abuses against former security personnel and fragmented opposition sustain the
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The Taliban’s suspension of BBC World Service FM broadcasts highlights mounting pressure on independent journalism in Afghanistan. Against a documented record of arrests, intimidation and censorship targeting media workers, the move threatens
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The international community risks becoming accustomed to the systematic exclusion of millions of Afghan women and girls from education, employment and public life, according to Elisenda Calvet, a jurist and judge at
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The failure of regional consultations in Moscow to produce a joint statement highlights a widening rift over terrorism in Afghanistan. While Russia welcomes the Taliban’s campaign against ISIS-K, Pakistan remains concerned about
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Pakistan’s latest strikes inside Afghanistan mark a shift from years of diplomacy towards direct military deterrence. Islamabad argues that repeated attacks by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, alleged Afghan-based sanctuaries and unfulfilled assurances have
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Five years after the Taliban returned to Kabul, its grip on Afghanistan remains formidable but increasingly contested. Persistent TTP attacks inside Pakistan, worsening Kabul–Islamabad tensions and the emergence of armed anti-Taliban groups
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Afghanistan has once again become a major concern for regional counterterrorism. Around 13,000 foreign militants are estimated to be operating in the country, including thousands linked to the TTP, ISKP and al-Qaida.
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For more than two decades, Pakistan has conducted repeated counterterrorism campaigns against Taliban militants and Baloch insurgents in its western regions bordering Afghanistan and Iran. Yet the country remains caught in a
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In March 2008, Colombian jets crossed into Ecuadorian airspace and destroyed a Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) encampment a mile past the border, killing the group’s second-in-command. Ecuador called it a
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Sakina knew the risks. In the final days of her pregnancy, she was living in Pas Kuran, a village in Kuran wa Munjan, one of the most remote districts in northeastern Afghanistan.
More Five years after returning to power, the Taliban controls Afghanistan more firmly than many expected. Yet territorial control has not translated into the elimination of militant networks operating from Afghan soil. That
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Sky News published a video this month that opens on a rigged explosive device and a pickax under a stark title card, “Inside the Taliban’s Museum of Death.” Three seconds pass before
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The Afghanistan’s mineral resources have traditionally been one of hidden wealth ready to be unlocked by peace, investment, and modern technology. This narrative is becoming outdated now. Even the much talked about
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As reported on September 2, 2026, the Afghanistan United Front (AUF) killed a Taliban official, Qari Aghagol, from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, in the 18th
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