A push and a shove
Compromise was hard won among Afghan delegates hashing out a post-Taliban scenario, but the final accord may set the foundation for a happy ending in Afghanistan, reports Abdel-Azim Hammad from Bonn

Soul-searching in Bonn
The UN-sponsored talks in Bonn are a show of mind over muscle as Afghan leaders try and hash out a deal for a future government, writes Iffat Malik

Final target, Kandahar
Though the military campaign in Afghanistan seems to be drawing to a close, the final push to Kandahar is a war on its own, reports Anayat Durrani from Washington

The plan for Afghanistan
The result of the UN-brokered talks on Afghanistan's political future was a sticking plaster applied to deep political wounds. Gamal Nkrumah writes from Bonn

High noon at Tora Bora?
Will the US get its man? As the war in Afghanistan enters its final phase, Galal Nassar looks at some of the factors impacting on the US's hopes of capturing Bin Laden

So long Geneva, hello Kandahar
Have we lost sight of the Geneva Conventions? Nyier Abdou tracks the atrocities left in the wake of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance

Unmourned soldiers
With the death of hundreds of Pakistani PoWs in last week's prison revolt in Afghanistan, Pakistan needs to take a hard look at the madrassas that produced them, writes Absar Alam in Islamabad

Once bitten, forever smitten
If the US decides to extend its "war on terror" to Iraq, the country's Kurds may not support their former ally, writes Maggy Zanger after a visit to northern Iraq

A ruckus over Iraq
The press and hawks in the US administration are talking tough on Iraq. But Russian influence may defer the resumption of hostilities between old foes. Michael Jansen reports