By addressing social injustices — like the price of marriage — the Taliban has no trouble winning hearts and minds.
Former members of the Taliban are desperate for peace. Their lives may depend on it.
Building a strong civil society is among the greatest US successes since the occupation began. Can it last when the US leaves?
US relations with Afghanistan have deteriorated under Obama.
Not far from the largest US military base in Afghanistan, the Taliban is making major inroads.
With the Taliban insurgency raging across much of Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance says old divisions are threatening to plunge the nation deeper into the mire.
The occupation, they say, has actively encouraged a litany of personal and political ills in an effort to weaken the bedrock of society: Islam.
With time running out and Washington having played its strongest card, optimism in Afghanistan is hard to find.
A peaceful Afghanistan appears inextricably linked to a peaceful North Waziristan.
The doubts that always clouded the NATO mission in Afghanistan have assumed a grim finality for many Afghans.
NATO members talk withdrawal in Chicago. Afghans talk civil war.