Afghanistan After US withdrawal

While domestic politics and moral compulsions pull India away from the Taliban, its strategic interests will push it to engage with the new government in Kabul.

Western nations should swiftly move to restrict the space, capability, authority of the new Taliban regime in Kabul.

The opposing sides of Myanmar’s political crisis are projecting their own fantasies onto the fall of Kabul.

A conversation about the last 20 years in Afghanistan.

The impact of Taliban rule on the country's security situation is unclear, but is likely to be less marked than in the 1980s and 1990s.

Where was the Afghan military and the warlords?

A conversation with a veteran war reporter.

The fate of the Afghan government following the Soviet withdrawal is more complex than sometimes assumed. That has lessons for Kabul today.

The coming weeks and months will reveal the exact role the United States envisions for Pakistan in Afghanistan after the U.S. military withdrawal is complete.

After the last American soldier departs Afghanistan in September, India and Pakistan will be left with some very difficult, unsavory, choices.

Afghan attempts at establishing relations with India have generally been designed to send signals to Pakistan.