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Afghanistan’s extremist rulers are cracking down on minorities, especially Shiites, as hard as they have on women.
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Rising prices, food insecurity, and a growing debt burden make Islamabad’s other challenges all the more pressing.
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A new Amnesty report lays out the Taliban playbook for erasing half the population: electrocutions, beatings, detentions, and disappearances.
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A three-day conference in Uzbekistan has united the region, worried about the guerrillas in their midst.
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But the United States is leery of giving the Taliban access to billions in cash.
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FP’s columnist on a harrowing return to Kabul, almost one year after the United States left Afghanistan.
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The Taliban are strip-mining their mineral wealth to fund factional power grabs.
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With the Taliban at loggerheads and Afghanistan in chaos, one politician has a plan to stave off civil war.
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An internal United Nations report details escalating Taliban violations of human rights—and little U.N. leverage.
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The regional capos who broke Afghanistan once before are angling to contest control of the country with the current Taliban rulers.
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Afghanistan’s new rulers are looting the past—again.
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Afghans rue the return of the Taliban. So does Pakistan, as al Qaeda-linked militants run rampant.
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