Pakistan's decision to halt trade with Afghanistan, which defence minister Khwaja Asif said was "a blessing in disguise", is backfiring. This is why the ban is hitting Pakistan's own economy hard ...

The road to success for President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy runs through India, goes an increasingly familiar refrain. That’s because reversing the Taliban’s momentum requires getting rid of the ...

Water has exposed cracks in the Taliban's fragile relationship with Tehran, with both sides exchanging pointed barbs over scarce supplies before coming to deadly blows along the Afghan-Iranian border.

The spectacle of fierce fighting around a dusty Afghan town, with well-armed Western troops, backed by helicopters and Afghan allies, bearing down on hundreds of dug-in Taliban fighters, would seem to ...