Afghan Taliban

Ashraf Ghani’s overtures to Pakistan are foundering on the latter’s strategic compulsions.

Qatar has reportedly secured the release of four Tajik border guards kidnapped by the Taliban in December.

The most recent overnight attack on a guesthouse in Kabul resulted in only four Taliban casualties.

The delicate yet volatile balance of jihadi movements and insurgents within Afghanistan may be about to shift.

Attacks in Kunduz Province delayed the Afghan president’s departure for New Delhi.

Can China promote peace in Afghanistan by nudging Kabul and Islamabad closer together?

Although its prospects in the region are likely limited, IS could bring further death and destruction to South Asia.

Plus, the myth of counter-intervention, scrapping GDP growth targets, and a visit from the Taliban. Friday China links.

In their third podcast, the U.S. team discusses MH370 and the geopolitics of Afghanistan following NATO's withdrawal.

With the impending drawdown of U.S. forces, a largely overlooked conflict has the potential to explode.

The Diplomat’s Sanjay Kumar spoke with Abdul Hakim Mujahid, former Taliban representative to the UN and now deputy chair of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, about the past, present and future of his country.