The paper trail runs from a US inspector general’s report to forty million dollars a week to training camps sheltering the TTP, Al Qaeda, and
When the Taliban signed the Doha Agreement in February 2020, one of its central pillars was a written commitment: Afghan soil would not be used
Syria’s post-conflict authorities are dismantling what remained of the country’s foreign terrorist infrastructure, arresting fighters, restricting extremist networks, and closing off what was once among
In Khost’s Dih-e-Mand district, a family did everything a victim is supposed to do. Their two daughters were sexually assaulted by Taliban commanders during a
A theological and legal deconstruction of the Taliban’s absolutist military decrees under classical Hanafi jurisprudence and scriptural texts. When Sheikh Abdulhadi Hemat, head of the
The line between editorial independence and deliberate narrative construction is crossed when a media outlet consistently softens the identity of violent actors while structurally undermining
Recent statements by British and European envoys signal a decisive shift in how the West frames Afghanistan-based terrorism, and validate concerns Pakistan has long raised alone
There is a particular kind of evidence that transcends the back-and-forth of competing diplomatic narratives. It does not require expert analysis, intelligence assessments, or the
There is a particular kind of audacity that comes from men who have failed comprehensively at something and then returned, without apparent embarrassment, to lecture
Let us establish the facts before anything else, because Zalmay Khalilzad’s intervention on X depends entirely on the audience not doing precisely that. Afghanistan has