Hashmatallah Moslih

Ahead of new talks with the Tal­iban, some Afghan lead­ers think fed­er­al­ism is the only way to se­cure long-term peace.

Some 20,000 Afghan Shia fight­ers said to be fight­ing along­side Iran to help save gov­ern­ment of Syr­i­an Pres­i­dent As­sad.

By del­e­gat­ing talks on US-Afghan se­cu­ri­ty pact to grand as­sem­bly, Karzai has made a clever bid to dodge re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.