TTP militants in Pakistan have declared themselves part of the Talibans’s emirate in Afghanistan.
- Visiting Research Professor, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast
The Taliban is increasingly demanding a say in how aid is delivered and to whom.
A Taliban perspective on recent peace talks for Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s jihadist groups have plenty of disagreements, but they also trade fighters, training, and weapons.
Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor was a tough and smart strategist who held the Taliban together and crushed dissent. Will his legacy endure?
The recent attack on a university in northern Pakistan is part of a resurgence in violence on both sides of the country’s border with Afghanistan.
Ten years ago, a devastating earthquake killed tens of thousands of people in Pakistan. How has the devastated town of Balakot recovered?
The first thing that I noticed in the gruesome pictures of two gunmen fleeing the scene of their attack on Charlie Hebdo was that the men were dressed from head to toe in black. It might sound strange…
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on a school in Peshawar that killed more than 130 children. The militants planned the massacre to take revenge on the Pakistan army. They murdered…
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