Hamid Karzai

India will be watching talks between the United States and elements of the Taliban with a wary eye.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is set to land in Kabul this morning. Officials aren’t giving much away.

The US has set a dangerous precedent by ordering the killing of bin Laden. But it’s not too late to save American foreign policy.

With Western forces to withdraw from Afghanistan, India will need creative thinking to maintain influence.

Sealing the porous border with Pakistan will be essential if Afghanistan is to have any hope of stability. ISAF has its work cut out.

Reintegration of insurgents was meant to allow the US to leave behind a more stable country, reports David Axe. The project is looking like a failure.

Will the Taliban be able to mount an effective spring offensive? A leading terrorism analyst shares his thoughts.

In the first of a series of dispatches from Afghanistan, David Axe reports on how superior US air power isn’t bringing victory any closer.

Arab world unrest shouldn’t distract from the looming abyss of the Afghan War. The US should welcome a Turkish move to engage the Taliban.

Despite the Obama administration’s claims of success, Afghanistan is in a guerrilla war that might be too expensive for the country to win, argues Juan Cole in our feature interview.

Hamid Karzai’s decision to postpone the inauguration of the new parliament deepens what was already a political crisis, argues Robert Dreyfuss.

In this second in a series of interviews looking back on 2010, we speak with analyst Haider Mullick about developments in Pakistan.