Tag: Afghanistan

Afghanistan/USA – Blood in the Sand (Project-Syndicate)

JEFFREY D. SACHS For decades, the American political class has intervened relentlessly and recklessly in countries whose people they hold in contempt. And once again...

Afghanistan/USA – Pax Americana Died in Kabul (Project-Syndicate)

BRAHMA CHELLANEY The unraveling of the effort to build a democratic, secular Afghanistan will pose a far greater threat to the free world than Syria’s...

Afghanistan – Terror and the Taliban (Project-Syndicate)

FAWAZ A. GERGES The world should not ignore the risk that Afghanistan under the Taliban could become a breeding ground for international terrorism. But nor...

Afghanistan – What to do after the Taliban take-over (The Interpreter)

SUSANNE SCHMEIDL I am not an emotionally detached observer of Afghanistan. The country was once my second home, and I still have friends and colleagues...

Afghanistan – Who are the Taliban who conquered Afghanistan? (BESA Center)

Dr. James M. Dorsey Having taken control, the Taliban want the world to believe that they have become more pragmatic and inclusive in the twenty...

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...