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Editor’s Note: This article has been adapted from a Center for the National Interest report entitled “Afghanistan’s Qoshtepa Canal and Water Security in Central Asia,” with some edits made for...

Since August 2021, all Central Asian republics have been, in one way or another, contending with Taliban rule in Afghanistan. While treading cautiously, each Central Asian government faces a host...

In 2023, Pakistan was convulsed by three crises — economic, political and security. They originated in 2021 and 2022 but became more serious, forcing the country to pay the price...

Pakistan is once again in trouble. Since the Afghan Taliban (hereafter the Taliban) returned to power in August 2021, Pakistan has witnessed an uptick in violence perpetrated by the Tehreek-i-Taliban...

In its recent report, the World Bank has estimated that Afghanistan’s economy ‘faces critical challenges’ in which the country’s total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is projected to contract further, with an...

The U.S. government reportedly assured the Taliban during a set of negotiations in early October that it would not attempt to fund resistance to the new government—an announcement made after...

On the night of January 16, 2022, a group of armed men from the Taliban’s intelligence service entered the apartment block of Tamana Zaryab Paryani, a human rights activist who...

A suicide bomber targeted the Interior Ministry of Afghanistan headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, killing four employees and marking the latest act of violence against the country’s Taliban-led government since its conquest of...

Hundreds of women across Afghanistan marched in protest against an ongoing campaign of violence directed at the country’s Hazara ethnic and religious minority following a suicide bomb attack on Friday...

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the deputy minister of foreign affairs within the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan, urged the country’s senior leadership to reopen girls’ schools across the country during a...

The Biden administration on Monday announced that Mark Frerichs, an American held captive in Afghanistan for more than two years, has been released in a prisoner swap, according to a...

The U.S. government announced on Monday that it had conducted a prisoner exchange with the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan, freeing an American civil engineer and U.S. Navy veteran from the...