Afghan Taliban

Ahmed’s young palms were sweating. He tried to busy his mind by peeking out of the car window and see the the cars and Rickshaws passing by him, the carts and pedestrians all walking to and from their...

Since taking power last summer, Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government has been isolated internationally; not a single country has yet recognized it. But in recent weeks, Taliban officials have made a series of increasingly public overtures to a once unlikely prospective...

A delightfully unanticipated series of developments that occurred in quick succession in Afghanistan over the last weekend, left the world dumbfound. No one could have imagined such a smooth and non-violent transition of power in Kabul. The ill-planned and...