American power succeeds only when it enters a conflict with limits, legitimacy, and a political end state already within reach, and it fails when it tries to invent those conditions at gunpoint.

In 2021, with the end of the US war in Afghanistan, it was the end of a dream and the start of a nightmare for Afghans like him, says Nisar Momand, who had worked for the American army as an ...

The United States and the Taliban said Saturday they had made substantial headway in negotiations to end the 17-year US war in Afghanistan, although sticking points remained. Zalmay Khalilzad, who was ...