The conditions are ripening for talks between the Afghan government, the Taliban, and the United States to begin.

Much of the Taliban’s armory comes from American equipment given to the Afghan military and police.

Counterterrorism is in and nation-building is out, but the United States still has no way out of Afghanistan.

ISIS expansion and the Taliban's new regional allies; these are the urgent tasks the U.S. must address in its strategy.

Why have the Taliban been able to make inroads in northern Afghanistan?

Afghanistan’s failure to bring reform to its security apparatus is long overdue for a fix.

The Diplomat's Ankit Panda and Catherine Putz discuss the U.S. drone strike on Mullah Mansour.

Afghanistan's president appears determined to move beyond peace talks.

Afghanistan is playing the blame game with Pakistan once again. Islamabad and Kabul need to focus on the fight against terror.

The difference between public accounts and the fiction the Taliban claims is astounding.

Failure of the Afghan peace process will harm Pakistan's credibility to a great extent.

Pakistan needs to address the underlying ideologies driving radicalization within its borders.

Georgia's wounded soldiers coming back from Afghanistan need care but they're not getting it.

The Diplomat's Sanjay Kumar speaks with a survivor of the U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

Why has the U.S.-led force failed to build a self-sustainable Afghanistan?