Zarif Nazar is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan.
A year after the Taliban returned to power in Kabul, a former top U.S. diplomat who negotiated and signed a controversial peace deal with the group gave his view on why it failed to secure reconciliation among Afghans.
The Taliban has been accused of forcibly displacing hundreds of ethnic Uzbek and Turkmen residents in Afghanistan's northern province of Jowzjan. Ethnic Uzbeks and Turkmen say Pashtun nomads have seized their homes and land with the help of the Taliban, a predominately Pashtun group.
In an interview with RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi, U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad says the only way to end the war and prevent a "protracted" conflict is by political agreement.
The abduction of a child in northern Afghanistan has shocked the country’s Turkmen minority, prompting them to protest and shut the country’s northern river ports and border crossings with its Central Asian neighbors.
U.S. envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has called on Afghan leaders to end their standoff over a disputed presidential election and seize a “historic opportunity” for peace.
U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has described the latest round of U.S.-Taliban peace talks as the "most production" ever, telling RFE/RL that “a lot of progress” has been made.
Afghanistan’s top security officials and lawmakers are at loggerheads over who is responsible for preventing deadly terrorist attacks in the capital that have killed and injured hundreds this year alone.
Afghanistan’s national security adviser wants greater regional antiterrorism cooperation to prevent his country from descending into the sort of abyss into which Syria and Iraq have fallen.
A former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan says the proposed antiterrorism cooperation between Islamabad and Kabul is unlikely to succeed.
Afghanistan's top military leader is confident his force will defeat the Taliban and allied rebels in a northern province near Central Asia.
Afghans have questioned former President Hamid Karzai's motives in opposing the foreign and domestic policies of incumbent President Ashraf Ghani.
Afghanistan's historic election are tainted by signs of fraud.
Leading contenders in this year's Afghan presidential election agree there is no clear military solution to the ongoing conflict in their country, but they differ over how to tackle the issue of negotiating peace with the Taliban.
Experts and officials have advised President Hamid Karzai to sign the stalled security pact with the United States in an effort to bring stability to Afghanistan.
Afghans view this year's presidential election as necessary for ensuring a peaceful transfer of power, but worries over the process are abundant.
Ten years after it was adopted by an assembly of tribal leaders, Afghanistan's current constitution remains one of the most progressive in the Muslim world but has yet to be fully implemented.
