As military leaders in Washington revise their war strategy for Afghanistan, analysts say enlisting Afghan tribesmen could aid in security. Others warn that what helped stabilize Iraq may play ...

QUETTA, Pakistan — It’s ages old and out of sync with most concepts of modernity, but those shaping Afghanistan’s future are betting heavily that the country’s ancient tribal system can be ...

In Afghanistan, the author and her then-fiancé in the Special Forces experienced firsthand the country’s close-knit tribal fabric.

In Afghanistan, a grand assembly of some 2,500 tribal elders, politicians and civil society elites are meeting to decide whether to approve a security agreement with the United States. Approval by ...

Qari Zia Rahman and a map of northeastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. Map from the Asia Times; click to view. A dangerous, dual-hatted Taliban and al Qaeda commander has kidnapped 21 Afghan ...

A number of experts think the U.S. should abandon its “top down” strategy of building an Afghan national army and should switch to arming and paying local tribes to fight the Taliban. Former ...

During its more than 200-year stint on the subcontinent, Great Britain never conquered the tribal lands that divide Pakistan and Afghanistan.

That’s the tragedy of Afghanistan: There is no road map for success, but there’s a nearby exit ramp for failure. It is easy to imagine the Taliban retaking control of Kabul and other holdout ...

A two-day gathering of anti-Taliban Afghan tribal and religious leaders concluded here Thursday with what appeared to be an impressive agenda for peace and national unity in war-battered ...

A Pashtun leader who had questioned Pakistani military operations in his North Waziristan homeland has been assassinated in southeastern Afghanistan, where he had been living in exile for more than ...

Two Pashtun tribes are helping the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan to stabilize a stretch of their long border, where recent clashes have left several dead. On April 23, a joint committee of ...