Obama’s initiatives in Iran and in the Afghan-Pakistan theatre of war -- together with the Arab-Israeli conflict -- are at the heart of the world crisis.

A timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan should set the stage for the military neutralization of the country.

Young Muslims are easy recruits for liberation groups such as al-Qaeda, the Taliban or Hamas

KARACHI, Pakistan: Greg Mortenson is an American and, like our philanthropist Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi, likes to spend his time with the underprivileged and poor without discrimination,

An attack on Quetta, and on the leadership of the Afghan Taliban is something else entirely - and not just because bombing Quetta would probably result in mass civilian casualties,

US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have operated under standing orders to 'call for fire' (an air-strike) whenever resistance fighters take cover in a house or apartment building, even when

Because of the Iraq calamity, other elements of the neocon vision of remaking the Middle East were put on hold.

A number of popular accounts of the invasion of Afghanistan suggest that the Central Intelligence Agency directly gave Northern Alliance warlords millions of dollars in cold, hard cash to help

Of 180 countries that Transparency International gauges on a 'corruption index,' only Somalia is worse than number 179: Afghanistan. Pratap Chatterjee describes how it works.

The emboldened Taliban movement in Afghanistan turned down an American offer of power-sharing in exchange for accepting the presence of foreign troops, Afghan government sources confirmed.