A quarter-century ago, Afghanistan’s hard-line Sunni Taliban movement emerged as a mortal enemy of the Shi’ite clerical regime in neighboring Iran. But amid today’s high U.S.-Iran tensions, Tehran’s influence over the Taliban could sabotage its peace negotiations with Washington.
As Iranian officials warn of “severe revenge” for the recent U.S. killing of their country’s most powerful military commander, Afghan officials are seeking reciprocal assurances from Tehran that their country will not be harmed in a confrontation with Washington.
Afghanistan’s four-decade-long conflict has been defined by the intervention of great powers and the meddling of neighbors who have ostensibly pursued their interests by arming or fighting various Afghan factions or facilitating their infighting.
Forty years ago, Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan and toppled an allied government. The bloody invasion would set Afghanistan on a path for decades of conflict.
The United States is allowing Pakistan to rejoin a military training program following a two-year suspension -- representing one element of U.S. military assistance frozen by President Donald Trump after accusing Islamabad of not doing enough to stop terrorism.
A top U.S. senator said that President Donald Trump is expected to announce a U.S. troop drawdown from Afghanistan this week.
The prospects of such a peace agreement puts the quarter-century-old Taliban movement at a crossroads.
Dozens of people attended the funeral of a local leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party who was shot dead in the northwestern Swat Valley.
Taliban militants have attacked a medical facility near the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, officials say, killing at least two Afghan civilians and wounding more than 70 other people, including five Georgian soldiers.
The Washington Post has published a report based on a confidential cache of U.S. government documents showing that three White House administrations misled the public about shortcomings and failures in the 18-year Afghanistan war.
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