A new report finds Afghan government forces complicit in violence against hospitals and medical staff.

2016 was a difficult year for Afghanistan and 2017 presents unique challenges.

The U.S. strategy focused on population centers ignores historical realities of Afghan’s counterrevolutionary history.

Afghan security forces have been struggling to push the Taliban out of Kunduz city.

Major Afghan cities are currently surrounded and under assault by the Taliban forces.

Afghan forces retook the city center of Kunduz on Tuesday after it was briefly taken by Taliban militants.

The Taliban have launched yet another major assault on Kunduz.

Why the fortress fiefdom effect is reducing the combat capabilities of Afghan forces.

Commandos are the country's best hope for staving off advances from the Taliban and ISIS.

Kabul is using a centralized approach to fight a decentralized insurgency.

Details from the Pentagon's inquiry into the Battle for Kunduz in October 2015 highlight high combat involvement for U.S. forces.

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

The situation is not all bad, but Afghan forces need to learn the lessons of 2015.

Pakistan's top general visited Afghanistan this weekend to discuss another round of peace talks with the Taliban.

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

Despite persistent challenges, there are reasons for cautious optimism.