Sulaiman Hakemy

No government – foreign or Afghan – has ever taken and held the rugged valley by force

Intricate ideas are being thought up to transform global migrant policy

Kabul bizarrely claims that an earnest pursuit of justice would jeopardise peace

After a fatal attack on an Ontario Muslim family, The National’s Sulaiman Hakemy reflects on his immigrant Canadian upbringing

Iraqi laws are still unfit to try a global terrorist group, stifling Baghdad's ability to prosecute effectively

The country cannot stabilise without an educated population, but people cannot go to school without stability

America's strategy to depart Afghan soil is making another war inevitable

We speak with a combat interpreter, a US soldier and two of the series’ Afghan writers to find out

With the looming prospect of Taliban rule, Afghans have been embroiled in debates about race and gender

The US has scrapped an oil pipeline that was key to Canadian 'national unity'

Is there any hope for a peace deal?

Assassination of a 'Lebanese history professor' in Tehran exposes an unlikely relationship between Iran's theocracy and the extremist terrorist group it supposedly reviles

Junior Australian soldiers were instructed to kill innocents, creating an environment of terror

Incoming president is expected to steer a new course after entering the Oval Office

Democratic candidate threw a curveball at the president in the final hours of a long and tiring game