(THE CONVERSATION) The rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban left many surprised. To Ali Olomi, a historian of the Middle East and Islam at Penn State University, a key to understanding what is ...

How did the Taliban retake Afghanistan after two decades of U.S. support and training? This video unpacks the deeper causes — ...

And I want to bring in another voice now. Wazhmah Osman is an associate professor of globalization and development communication at Temple University. Thank you for being with us. WAZHMAH OSMAN: Thank ...

After years of hostility, Russia is signaling a thaw with the Taliban, fueled by mutual enemies and economic motives. Moscow ...

A one-time Seattle reporter finds herself in the center of an international scandal, thanks to her new book, THE TALIBAN SHUFFLE. Foreign correspondent Kim Barker has spent most of the last decade ...

Afghanistan has long been linked to cross-border terrorism. That could prove a major factor if the combatants shift from state armies to proxy militias. Every time tensions rise between India and ...

At dawn on a cool October morning, officials in Islamabad and Kabul performed a rare ritual in the history of their troubled frontier: they agreed to keep talking.After five days of tense ...

Afghan families were kept in the dark over a major data breach, it has been claimed. The whistleblower who first alerted ...