The peace process rightly continues to be Afghan-owned and Afghan-led, but this has allowed the U.S. to avoid defining a coherent political strategy. The talk pillar falls short of fight and build, undervaluing local political reconciliation to achieve and sustain security gains.
Like dumping toxic chemicals into the ocean in hopes of breaking up an oil spill, the international community's solutions to the problems of Afghanistan have made the problem worse.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan government commission investigating the assassination of former President Burhanuddin Rabbani accused Pakistan on...
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai has given up trying to talk to the Taliban, saying in a video released Saturday that Pakistan holds ...
A suicide bomber killed my old friend, Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan, last week in Kabul, shaking his war-scarred nation to its core.
By AMIR SHAH and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan -- A surging crowd of mourners on Friday touched and kissed the coffin of...
The notion that cutting a deal with the Pakistani-supported Taliban will achieve any semblance of stability is a dangerous and delusional one.
Regardless of whether Rabbani's killer was Pakistan-based or not, ending Pakistan's support for militant groups that target international troops in Afghanistan is seen by the United States as central to any future stability in Afghanistan.
If Afghan women were provided the opportunity to lead a national dialogue, they could bring people together in a way that men haven't done.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani extended a hand to his assassin and greeted him at his home with the words "Wel...
KABUL, Afghanistan — The assassination of a former Afghan president reflects the dangers of negotiations with the Taliban: Any effort toward a p...
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide attacker with a bomb in his turban posed as a Taliban peace envoy and assassinated a former Afghan president who ...
Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president, has survived a Taliban ambush in northern Kunduz province, officials have said. Rabbani, now a memb...
