Sahar Halaimzai is an advocate and human rights campaigner working for PEN International. Zarlasht Halaimzai is director and co-founder of Refugee Trauma Initiative (RTI). Quhramaana Kakar is a peace activist, a development practitioner, and the founder and director of Women for Peace and Participation. Rahela Sidiqi is the founding director of Farkhunda ...

Some former Taliban members and Afghan politicians have voiced their concern over the delayed meeting between US and Taliban representatives in Islamabad.

Afghans feel the West, Muslim world turned their back on them after Soviet forces withdrew in 1989

Vladimir Putin has overseen effort to rehabilitate view of war in Russians' eyes

The Trump administration is seeking an 'honorable and just peace.' If only this commander in chief and the Taliban could be trusted: Our view

If the war in Afghanistan has been anything, it has been a disappointment.

Encouraging comments from the U.S. envoy to Afghanistan on "significant progress" in talks with the Taliban heightened hopes for peace, but the envoy and experts on the region warned that major obstacles remain.

At a crucial juncture in the shaky Afghan peace process, the Taliban are threatening to stall all talks and negotiations with the U.S. over “unlawful” pressures and manoeuvring.

Russia has opposed the United States’ policy in Afghanistan for years. 

Afghans are asking the Taliban to learn from their country’s recent troubled history as the hard-line Islamist movement refuses to negotiate peace with the Afghan government.

US leader's bid to undermine India's aid to Afghanistan annoys politicians and citizens in both South Asian nations.

President Trump said a lot of strange, untrue things after Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting. But the most bizarre snippet might have been his “history” lesson on the Soviet Union.

None can deny the importance of Chabahar Port in bolstering up the Afghan economy which gives an outstanding opportunity for the landlocked country to gain access to sea port.

President Trump is receiving an onslaught of criticism for his decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan. Congressional Democrats should not pile on without offering an alternative vision. We should applaud the president’s desire to put an end to these interventions, but should challenge him to assemble a team that does so with better ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman may lose much of his powers, and King Salman bin Abdul Aziz wants to restrain his son’s decision-making powers, reported the Financial Times quoting Western officials.

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova says Moscow has received hundreds of requests from the widows of Daesh Takfiri terrorists, who were slain either in Iraq or Syria over the past few years, to return home.

Helmand civil society activists said civilian casualties must stop; otherwise, they said people will protest against it.

More than 220 candidates in 13 provinces of the country have received four to 999 votes --- falling below the condition of submitting names of at least 1,000 persons to the Independent Election Commission (IEC) as guaranteed voters while registering as candidate.

The majority of Americans disapprove of US President Donald Trump’s personal character traits and his performance on every major issue except the economy, according to a new poll.

Though both sides deny it, it is possible Russia is supplying arms to the Taliban through intermediaries, say analysts