Old empires once jostled for control of this part of the world. Today, Turkey, Iran, Russia and the US are doing the same and even Pakistan and India have jumped in. Politics, geopolitics, ethnicity and religion combine to make a...
The number of madrassas has surged in Afghanistan. The Taliban is making them a safe haven for terrorists and threatening the security of the region and the world.
Pakistan has long backed the Taliban, which is now in power in Afghanistan. Yet it may have created a Frankenstein’s monster with extremist Islamist groups unleasing a campaign of terror in Pakistan itself.
Two rival theological notions of leadership within the Taliban pose equal threats to Afghanistan and to global peace.
Civil society leaders, human rights activists and public intellectuals write an open letter to the UN, highlighting the persecution of the Hazara Shia community in Taliban-occupied Afghanistan.
Driven by ethno-nationalism, the Taliban are persecuting Tajiks who often find themselves at the sharp end of a knife or the barrel of a gun.
Facing hunger and humiliation, cultural genocide and gender apartheid, millions in Afghanistan are thinking of jailbreak and escaping to another country.
The prospects for peace in Afghanistan will remain distant for as long as the Taliban own the entire political apparatus.
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