Fazelminallah Qazizai

By addressing social injustices — like the price of marriage — the Taliban has no trouble winning hearts and minds.

Jalalabad, Afghanistan could determine the country's success after the US leaves the area.

In Afghanistan, an old, rundown university has become a major adversary for the government and its NATO allies. The young men educated on the campus of Nangarhar stage regular protests that often feature blocking one of the country's main highways and burning US flags.

Afghanistan: The Taliban will have easy access to Kabul when Western troops leave if NATO can’t stop them in Maidan Wardak.