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EXPLAINER: US, NATO pledge billions to back Afghan forces
By Kathy Gannon
Nazar Mohammad Khasha: Popular police officer killed in Kandahar
By Ezzatullah Mehrdad & Alex Horton
Taliban 'has not changed,' say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its extremist rule
By Mona Tajali & Homa Hoodfar
Chinese officials and Taliban meet, in sign of warming ties
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China Offers the Taliban a Warm Welcome While Urging Peace Talks (Published 2021)
By Steven Lee Myers
How to Avert Disaster in Afghanistan
By Bradley Bowman
Chinese officials and Taliban meet in Tianjin as US exits Afghanistan
By Eric Cheung & Ben Westcott
Kandahar residents fear Taliban advance on Afghan city
By Abdul Matin Amiri & Ali Latifi
Analysis | Northern Afghanistan once kept out the Taliban. Why has it fallen so quickly this time?
By Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili