Afghanistan

File photo dated May 1, 1998 of Oussama Bin Laden, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, his right hand man in Jamkha, Afghanistan. Zawahiri was killed in a counter-terrorism operation carried out by the CIA in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday. Mr Biden said Zawahiri had "carved a trail of murder and violence against American citizens". "Now justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is no more," he added. Zawahiri took over al-Qaeda after the death of Osama Bin Laden in 2011. He and Bin Laden plotted the 9/11 attacks together and he was one of the US's "most wanted terrorists". Photo by Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Al-Qaida after al-Zawahri

Daniel L. Byman

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Taliban fighters drive a car on a street following the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a U.S. strike over the weekend, in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 2, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara

What Ayman al-Zawahri’s death says about terrorism in Taliban-run Afghanistan

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Sahar, 17, an 11th grade secondary school student, walks past her former school in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 20, 2021. Sahar wants to become an engineer, but, for now at least, has to learn at home as best she can. "I would love to come back to my class, resume my studies, to be with my classmates and teachers," REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "BENSEMRA EDUCATION" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES

The relationship between schooling and conflict in Afghanistan

Ghulam Omar Qargha

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Pakistan's prime minister-elect Shehbaz Sharif, speaks after winning a parliamentary vote to elect a new prime minister, at the national assembly, in Islamabad, Pakistan April 11, 2022. Pakistan National Assembly/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

President Biden, don’t pass up the opportunity for a reset with Shahbaz Sharif’s Pakistan

Bruce Riedel and Madiha Afzal

Friday, April 22, 2022

Volunteers wait in line to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces at a military commissariat in Kyiv, Ukraine February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi

Could Ukraine be Putin’s Afghanistan?

Thursday, February 24, 2022

One policeman was martyred and another injured after a hand grenade was thrown at a police van in Peshawar. Officials said, that the police van was stationed at the Karkhono Market when the hand grenade was thrown on it by unidentified suspects. They added that the suspects fled the scene after throwing the grenade. (Photo by Hussain Ali/Pacific Press/Sipa USA)

Pakistan’s ambivalent approach toward a resurgent Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan

Friday, February 11, 2022

A motorist passes by a wall with a graffiti of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in El Aguaje after the visit of Vatican's ambassador to Mexico Franco Coppola to the area and to the municipality of Aguililla, an area where the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and local drug gangs are fighting to control the territory, in Michoacan state, Mexico April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Alan Ortega

Nonstate armed actors in 2022: Alive and powerful in the new geopolitics

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

A general view of Kabul, Afghanistan, October 16, 2021. Picture taken October 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

Nonstate threats in the Taliban’s Afghanistan

Joshua T. White

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Afghan girls study at an open area, founded by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), outside Jalalabad city, Afghanistan September 16, 2015. REUTERS/Parwiz

To help ensure food and economic security in Afghanistan, invest in the skills of young women and girls

Nangyalai Attal

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

A marine, who had been deployed to Afghanistan, hugs his mother as he returns to U.S. Marine Base Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California, U.S., October 3, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Anger, betrayal, and humiliation: how veterans feel about the withdrawal from Afghanistan

William A. Galston

Friday, November 12, 2021