Ahmed Rashid

New radicals

21 August 2021 9:00 am

The younger Taliban are ambitious – and more brutal than ever

War-war, not jaw-jaw

8 April 2017 9:00 am

It’s often said that the Trump administration is ‘isolationist’. This is not true. In fact, we are now witnessing a…

Afghanistan’s new agony

12 December 2015 9:00 am

So many lives lost, a trillion dollars spent, yet the Taleban is resurgent

Al-Qaeda could end up the big winners in Syria

18 July 2015 9:00 am

Fear has driven the Arab states to support the West’s great enemy

Afghanistan year zero

14 December 2013 9:00 am

All bets are off when the US troops pull out