The United States hands over military operations in Afghanistan's restive south to NATO. The move comes as the resurgent Taliban mounts daily attacks that threaten the country's stability and highlight the powerlessness of the Afghan government.

A resurgent Taliban and a bumper crop of opium poppies are adding to the instability in Afghanistan. With NATO forces set to take the security lead at the end of July, a new campaign seeks to drive out Afghan insurgents.

As NATO prepares to expand its mission into restive southern Afghanistan, it faces an array of challenges, including attacks from a resurgent Taliban and the frustration and anger of Afghans over corruption and the glacial pace of reform.

Tension and instability simmer in Afghanistan as NATO prepares to expand its military presence into the south, where a resurgent Taliban is launching attacks. Against this backdrop, a traffic accident involving U.S. military vehicles sparked deadly riots in Kabul.

The U.S. government's list of foreign terrorist organizations is a powerful policy tool for denying legitimacy to groups Washington deems to be "beyond the pale." The list has remained relatively static, but the latest report tracks a new area of concern – terrorist havens.

As a resurgent Taliban escalates its attacks in Afghanistan, leaders push the Afghanistan Compact as their road map to security and stability. Experts say international support for the plan is indispensable, but not assured.

A deadly series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan raises fears militants are adopting tactics from the Iraqi insurgency. The attacks put the spotlight on the Afghan army—which is growing in size and effectiveness—and recently expanded NATO efforts to maintain security in the nation.

Afghanistan's challenges, from eradicating the drug trade to building a civil society to managing a civil conflict, are enormous. Dozens of countries and organizations are meeting in London this week to help.

In light of Afghan president Karzai's recent comments, Leslie H. Gelb advocates an expedited withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Throughout Chuck Hagel's marathon confirmation hearing, America's decade-long war in Afghanistan was noticeably overlooked. But it is curious to see the next secretary of defense receive so few inquiries from senators about the war whose end he will presumably oversee in the coming years, says Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says, "Even as the battle in Afghanistan begins its slow wind down, America and its leaders still struggle to engage with it in a serious way."

Despite the fact that Malala Yousafzai, the fourteen-year-old Pakistani women's rights activist, survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, similar attacks against women, like the one in India, are on the rise. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says that these attacks are efforts to stamp out women's progress and the potential of women worldwide will not be realized if this type of violence is tolerated.

Bibi Aisha's gruesome maiming put her on the cover of Time. Now, years later, she's working on getting a new face and trying to exorcise the horror, restart her life—and reunite with family, says Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.

Prospects for a smooth handover of security to Afghan authorities appear dismal, but new leadership from Washington could improve this interval, says Daniel Markey.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says Afghanistan's aspiring tech moguls, impossibly optimistic and totally obsessed, believe that computing will not only help make them money but also secure peace in their land.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says that just as Malala Yousafzai, the fourteen-year-old Pakistani girl who was gunned down by Taliban shooters, refused to silently abandon her right to education even at the risk of losing her life, courageous women and men fight daily against a worldview that considers girls' schools a call to action in their battle against modernity.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the surge of protests for women's rights in Afghanistan following the Taliban execution of an Afghan woman.

Micah Zenko and Emma Welch map out the launch pads for Obama's secret wars.

Leslie H. Gelb says President Obama will wait until after the election to speed up U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says that while Afghan women deplore the burning of the Quran by U.S. troops, they are even angrier at the bloody protests that followed.