Tag: Afghanistan

The Taliban takes Afghanistan (Brookings)

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Fred Dews On this episode, in the wake of the Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan, a discussion of the forces and issues that have...

Decoding intelligence on Afghanistan (The Interpreter)

BEN SCOTT Did the US intelligence community fail by not accurately predicting the speed and scale of the Taliban’s victory? A familiar blame game is now...

Evidence Destruction and the Crisis In Afghanistan (Just Security)

Nema Milaninia Afghan activists, journalists, and advocates for women’s rights scrambled to identify escape routes Sunday as international civil society organizations intensified a chaotic effort to evacuate...

Take Time to Judge Taliban’s Actions, Not Words (Just Security)

Lisa Curtis During their first week back in power, the Taliban leadership has gone to great lengths to show the world their movement has evolved...

Expert Backgrounder: How Can The Taliban Be Prevented From Representing Afghanistan In The United Nations? (Just Security)

Larry D. Johnson To repeat a common phrase, there are some things we know we know and there are some things we know we don’t...

CIA’s Former Counterterrorism Chief for the Region: Afghanistan, Not An Intelligence Failure — Something Much Worse (Just Security)

Douglas London While it’s certainly convenient to depict the shock and miscalculation U.S. officials claim over Afghanistan’s tragic, rapid fall to the Taliban as an...

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Secure Afghan Users’ Accounts Amid Taliban Takeover (VoA)

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn said this week they had moved to secure the accounts of Afghan citizens to protect them against being targeted amid...

Biden Seeks to Weather Afghan Withdrawal Storm (VoA)

Patsy Widakuswara U.S. President Joe Biden remains defiant in the middle of a political storm triggered by the swift Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and chaotic...

Special Immigrant Visas for the United States’ Afghan Allies: Lessons Learned from Promises Kept and Broken (Lawfare)

Anoush Baghdassarian, Todd Carney As thousands of Afghans rushed to the Kabul airport to flee the country out of a palpable fear of what Taliban rule...

Afghanistan/USA – Afghanistan, What Just Happened? (Hudson Institute)

Dr. Thomas Lynch, a Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Defense University and a retired army officer with extensive experience in Afghanistan, joined Mike...

Afghanistan/USA – Afghanistan, Part 1: Marshall Billingslea on the Taliban’s Illicit Financial Networks (Hudson Institute)

Amid the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, former US Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Marshall Billingslea joins Nate Sibley to discuss how the Taliban...

Afghanistan/USA – Biden’s Debacle in Afghanistan (Hudson Institute)

In a panel discussion for the Center for Security Policy, Rob Greenway discusses the current crisis in Afghanistan. Biden’s Debacle in Afghanistan - by Robert...

Afghanistan/USA – Why Was the Administration So Slow to Evacuate US Allies in Afghanistan? (Defense One)

Russell Berman That was how President Joe Biden, in his address to the nation on Monday, tried to explain why his administration had not acted sooner,...

Afghanistan/USA – These Afghans Were Our Allies. Now We Must All Help Them Become Our Neighbors (Defense One)

Doug Wilson, Matt Zeller As we write this, Americans from both political parties and from across the country—many of whom support President Biden’s decision to...

Afghanistan/USA – We Have One Last Chance to Save Our Allies (Defense One)

George Packer “This is not Saigon,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on CNN on Sunday—and he was right. By the time helicopters took off...

Afghanistan/North Caucasus – Taliban Triumph in Afghanistan Echoes in Russia’s North Caucasus (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Globe The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan threatens to destabilize the North Caucasus for three interrelated reasons. First, the Taliban victory is certain to inspire...