In the not-too-distant past, a remote land of towering peaks and tough, resilient people was deemed so crucial to the world's future that the United States boycotted the 1980 Olympic Games to display ...

As long as Pakistan sees Afghanistan as a playground for its own geopolitical goals, instability will remain, argues .

U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their experience was not only hell, but also confounding, demoralizing and at times ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to a shaky truce last weekend in talks mediated by Qatar and Turkey after more than a week of ...

Pity President Obama for having to open the Afghanistan file that was sitting on his Oval Office desk when he returned to work this week. His handpicked commander, General Stanley McChrystal, has ...