Rather than continue down the same failed path, the United States should be actively pursuing a negotiated end to the war in Afghanistan.

Although the Taliban has demonstrated a surprising ability to survive and conduct high-profile attacks in cities like Kabul, it is weaker today than most recognize....

For the last decade and a half, Russia and the United States have had largely similar aims in Afghanistan. Today, however, Moscow is convinced that it will have to...

The United States needs to engage with the ICC not push it aside.

Withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan would allow the country to revert back to a terrorist safe haven, but significantly ramping up the U.S. presence is a...

The United States is best off keeping a residual force in Afghanistan—but not escalating, as President Donald Trump plans to do.

The real problems with Trump's strategy in Afghanistan relate to his stated unwillingness to pursue “nation-building,” the leeway he has given to U.S. commanders,...

Erdogan's coup is reaching hysterical levels.

Unless Washington backs reforms aimed at improving Afghan governance, any hope for improvement is misplaced.

The United States should hunt down insurgent groups across Pakistan and promise to reward the country with more military aid if it agrees to do the same.

After Syrians, Afghans represent the second-largest group of asylum seekers in Germany. Yet Afghans are far less likely to be granted refugee status than their...

U.S. officials are expected to order several thousand more troops to Afghanistan. Instead, they should scale back Washington's involvement in the country.

There are four strategies for U.S. forces in Afghanistan: state building, reconciliation, containment, and basing.

Time may have passed since the last interagency policy review on Afghanistan, conducted by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2009, but the questions that U.S....

Together with Russia and Iran, the United States should build a regional consensus around supporting stability and ending support for proxies in Afghanistan.

Although the conventional wisdom is that the spate of insider attacks in Afghanistan comes from personal grievances of Afghan soliders, these attacks have become...

U.S. President Donald Trump's goals in Afghanistan should be limited: aggressively pursue terrorists that threaten the United States, prevent Taliban forces from...

Last month, Pakistan suffered its deadliest spasm of terrorist violence since 2014. This killing spree has dangerous implications, not only for Pakistan, which has...