Abubakar Siddique, a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, specializes in the coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the author of The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key To The Future Of Pakistan And Afghanistan.
In a sign that the Islamic State has established a foothold in eastern Afghanistan, the insurgents are now operating a radio station to propagate their message and attract new recruits.
The chairman of the Gwadar Port Authority hopes billions of dollars in Chinese investment will transform a dusty provincial town in southwestern Pakistan into a glitzy, 21st-century port.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's efforts to involve Pakistan in improving security and jumpstarting a peace process with the Taliban are facing domestic criticism.
There are signs that Pakistan and Afghanistan are likely to go ahead with a second round of talks between the Afghan Taliban and Kabul as part of a new push to end the Afghan conflict through a negotiated settlement and cultivating a cooperative bilateral relationship between the two neighbors.
A village in a restive southern province in Afghanistan encapsulates the insecurity, fear, and challenges civilians endure merely to survive amid escalating chaos.
Contradictory reports cloud the fate of the Afghan Taliban leader's fate a day after reports emerged that Mullah Akhtar Mansur had been seriously injured following a verbal dispute at a meeting of militant commanders in neighboring Pakistan.
In an unusual development, the Afghan Taliban have released a report detailing their fight against Central Asian militants allied with a Taliban splinter group in southern Afghanistan.
Suspicion in Kabul over Islamabad's intentions in facilitating peace talks with the Taliban and growing rifts among Afghan insurgents cloud the possible resumption of direct talks between the Afghan government and rebels.
Afghan officials and the Taliban are attempting unprecedented cooperation in reopening schools in remote parts of southern Afghanistan where insurgents control large swaths of territory.
A former inmate of the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay is leading Afghanistan's fight against Islamic State militants involved in a violent campaign in eastern Afghanistan.
Afghan lawmakers, officials, and observers see a covert Taliban alliance with Tehran to counter the increasing influence of the Islamic State, which is apparently bent on replacing the Taliban as the major insurgent faction in Afghanistan.
In a major blow to a simmering secessionist struggle from Pakistan, one of the most influential Baluch separatist leaders is expected to reconcile with Islamabad after engaging in secret talks with the government.
An Afghan academic speaks about pioneering a genders studies program at the university she was forced to quit by Islamist radicals two decades ago.
A recent powerful earthquake has imperiled the future of tens of thousands of students as they struggle to continue education in schools and colleges destroyed or partially damaged by the tremor.
A new report argues that a proposed plan of Chinese-financed transnational road and rail links connecting Beijing to Central Asia, South Asia, and Europe could herald stability in Afghanistan.
During their bloodiest campaign in 14 years, the Taliban have captured large swaths of Afghan territory this year. What is really behind this military momentum that has even raised the specter of a Taliban return to power in Afghanistan?
In a country ravaged by great power intervention, regional rivalries, competing ideologies and intense personal and factional rivalries, Afghans are engaged in an endless debate over who among their elites are serving their foreign masters.
The residents of a remote Afghan district overran by the Islamic State militants speak of extreme violence and oppression by fighters seemingly bent on changing their way of life.
The fall of a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan brings home the threats posed by the rapid rise of the Taliban and its international militant allies to Central Asian nations.
The Taliban capture of a strategic city in northern Afghanistan has exposed the weaknesses of a government struggling to preserve unity among its ranks while fighting escalating violence and an economic downturn.
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