Taliban, Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Why do the Taliban and ISIS hate each other?
The Taliban and ISIS are both Islamist extremist organizations, both with similar interests. Despite both belonging to extreme branches of Islam and seeking to establish authoritarian states that adhere to their versions of Sharia law,
How the "Great Game" tensions between Russia and Britain over the war-torn region led to the declaration of war between Pakistan and Afghanistan - and it could get far worse
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A new book examines Donald Trump’s Afghanistan strategy and how it deepened faultlines in South Asia
Rolling out his new strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia on August 21, 2017, Trump shared three core American interests. The first was an “honourable and enduring outcome” of the war in Afghanistan,
Tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban regime sharply escalated in late February, further heightening regional instability and raising concerns about the risk of a prolonged conflict.
Pakistan previously nurtured the Taliban’s senior ranks, training and financing the Islamist group through its intelligence services and sheltering them during the 20-year Nato occupation of Afghanistan. But Islamabad now views its one-time proxy, whose return to power in 2021 was celebrated by Pakistani officials, as its chief security threat.
After years of rising tensions, Pakistan and the Taliban are now locked in what officials call an “open war.” Border clashes, airstrikes, and escalating retaliation threaten to destabilize South Asia and beyond.
The Islamic State group has lost its caliphate in Syria and Iraq, but in the forbidding mountains of northeastern Afghanistan the group is expanding its footprint, recruiting new fighters and plotting attacks on the United States and other Western ...
Pakistan says it killed 133 Taliban operatives in Operation Ghazab lil-Haq after cross-border clashes, as Kabul counters with its own claims of heavy Pakistani losses amid escalating Durand Line tensions.
Iran has little interest in sponsoring a terrorist group that does not act in its interests in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Islamic Republic, the author argues, has good reason to support such acts of terrorism in Azerbaijan, owing to Baku’s close ...