Tag: Afghanistan

Afghanistan/Taliban/Central Asia – Taliban Victory Unsettles Geopolitics in Central Asia (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Globe The suddenness of the Taliban’s victory amidst the final departure of United States forces from Afghanistan has intensified fears in Central Asia about...

China/Central Asia/Afghanistan – Expanding China’s Central Asia Playbook to Afghanistan (The Jamestown Foundation)

Niva Yau For almost 30 years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has deployed various strategies to increase its economic and political influence in Central...

USA/Afghanistan/Middle East – How Much is Experience Worth? Twenty Years of US Experiments in the Middle East (Valdai Discussion Club)

Andrey Sushentsov The global wealth and influence of the United States was so great that it could simply afford a 20-year campaign with no practical value. With the withdrawal of troops...

Afghanistan – From ‘Night Letters’ to the Internet: Propaganda, the Taliban and the Afghanistan Crisis (ORF)

KABIR TANEJA The fast-unfolding crisis in Afghanistan, spearheaded by the Taliban’s territorial juggernaut and the fall of Kabul, also became a significant war of narratives....

Afghanistan – The fall of Afghanistan (ORF)

MANOJ JOSHI The American retreat from Afghanistan will have consequences quite different from those faced by Russia in 1988, which in turn, were different to...

Afghanistan – Picking up the pieces in Kabul (ORF)

SANJEEV AHLUWALIA The tremors from the fall of Kabul are likely to be felt far and wide – most keenly in nations transiting away from...

Afghanistan/Russia – Lavrov says Taliban’s readiness to respect others’ opinion is positive signal (TASS)

The Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia) is demonstrating readiness for dialogue with various Afghan forces and it can be seen as a positive signal,...

Afghanistan – Situation in Afghanistan highlights need for joint efforts by Russia, West — Lavrov (TASS)

The current situation in Afghanistan makes it clear that Russia and the West need to work together, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, addressing...

Afghanistan – Will Taliban victory mark the beginning of the end of the western empire? (Middle East Eye)

David Hearst When the US invaded Afghanistan on 7 October 2001, the cover of Time magazine proclaimed: "The Last Days of the Taliban." Thus began what became known as "the war...

Afghanistan/Turkey – Afghanistan: Turkish foreign minister says Taliban statements ‘positive’ (Middle East Eye)

Turkey on Tuesday welcomed Taliban statements as “positive” after the group promised to protect foreign embassies and issued a general amnesty for state employees. Turkish...

Afghanistan/USA – Pentagon rushes more reinforcements to Kabul airport as panic disrupts evacuations (Al Monitor)

Jared Szuba The Biden administration went on the defensive Monday after US troops rushed to restore order as chaos broke out at the Afghan capital's...

USA/Afghanistan – DOD IG Issues Guidance for Removing Sensitive Tech and Data from Afghanistan (Nextgov)

Brandi Vincent The U.S. military must take deliberate steps to ensure that records are kept and sensitive data is protected or removed from the equipment...

Afghanistan/USA – How the Afghan Army Collapsed Under the Taliban’s Pressure (CFR)

Max Boot A reporter asked U.S. President Joe Biden in July whether a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was inevitable. “No, it is not,” he said, pointing to...

USA/Afghanistan – Why Joe Biden’s Afghanistan speech was a disaster (AEI)

Michael Rubin President Joe Biden addressed the nation on the unfolding tragedy in Afghanistan. He was unrepentant. “I Do Not Regret My Decision,” he declared. His speech...

Afghanistan/UK – Afghanistan and the UK’s Illusion of Strategy (RUSI)

Main Image Credit Former US President George W Bush and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair at a joint news conference in 2002. Courtesy of...

Afghanistan/USA – The Case for Expediting Special Immigrant Visas amid a Transition of Power in Afghanistan (CSIS)

Daniel F. Runde, Elena Mendez Leal Following nearly 20 years of war in Afghanistan with a cost of more than $2 trillion and 241,000 lives lost, the...