Afghanistan

After cornering the market on heroin, they’ve pivoted to a quicker and more profitable alternative.

Formal recognition of the Taliban is not the answer.

Two years after the fall of Kabul, the Taliban continue to raise hell. Here are the tales of the people who have been through it.

Things have been bad for decades, but the Taliban threaten to make them worse.

An as-yet-unpublished U.S. government report highlights the importance of aid diversion to Taliban finances.

The West needs to engage with the rulers of Kabul—and disillusion them.

Rumblings are growing on Capitol Hill about oversight of more than $100 billion in U.S. assistance to Kyiv.

Terrorists are shopping for left-behind American weapons—and turning them against Washington’s friends around the world.

Efforts to punish the government are hurting ordinary Afghans instead.

Waiting for change in Afghanistan is like waiting for Godot.

Afghanistan’s top guns have no easy path to a new life.

The absence of a U.S. diplomatic presence leaves Washington powerless and strengthens the extremists in Kabul.

Extremist curriculum is teaching children how to hate, not how to think.

The group’s Afghanistan branch is capitalizing on the Russia-Ukraine war to recruit, fundraise, and incite violence.

The U.N. meets this week to decide whether to play by Taliban rules or pull out. Both are bad.