Tag: Afghanistan

Afghanistan/Taliban – Who are Taliban’s key leaders in Afghanistan? (Al Jazeera)

Taliban chief negotiator Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai at the intra-Afghan peace talks in Doha The Taliban has been fighting the Western-backed Afghan government in...

Germany/Afghanistan – Germany’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan puts its Security Policy Back at Square One (Global Policy)

Image: Ninara via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) On 29 June 2021, a press release announcing that the last German soldiers were leaving Afghanistan coincided with the German team leaving the confusingly...

Afghanistan/Pakistan – #SanctionPakistan trends as violence rages in Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

A Taliban flag, iin white, raised at the Afghan side of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Chaman, Pakistan As violence from a Taliban offensive on government-held areas...

USA/Afghanistan – US loses moral credibility abandoning Afghan forces (Global Times)

Li Zixin The Taliban seized three more provincial capitals on Tuesday, making it nine fallen cities in five days. After the Taliban seized three provincial...

Afghanistan/USA/Central Asia – No good options for Central Asia after US withdrawal from Afghanistan (East Asia Forum)

Nishank Motwani, ATR Consulting The US withdrawal from Afghanistan presents a special challenge to Russia and several Central Asian states. The withdrawal could see Afghanistan...

Afghanistan – Afghan official Q&A: What next amid new Taliban offensive? (Al Jazeera)

The Taliban has captured the city of Kunduz, the armed group said, the third provincial capital it has taken over in the last three...

Afghanistan – As fighting rages in Afghanistan, health workers are struggling (Al Jazeera)

Sarah Leahy Project coordinator at the MSF Helmand project in Lashkar Gah city Since May, when foreign troops started withdrawing from Afghanistan, we have witnessed heavy...

Afghanistan – Taliban captures three more Afghan provincial capitals in a day (Al Jazeera)

The Taliban has captured three more provincial capitals, as they take their fight to the cities after seizing much of the countryside in recent...

Afghanistan/USA – Don’t lose Afghanistan (Atlantic Council)

James Cunningham, Hugo Llorens, Ronald Neumann, Richard Olson, and Earl Anthony Wayne Given the Taliban’s behavior lately, US President Joe Biden’s decision to rapidly withdraw...

Afghanistan – Sheberghan: Taliban captures second Afghan provincial capital (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: The Taliban has captured the city of Sheberghan, the second Afghan provincial capital to fall to the armed group in less than...

Turkey/USA/Afghanistan – Turkey slams US statement on planned resettlement of Afghans (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: The Turkish government has criticised a US plan to use third countries such as Turkey to resettle thousands of Afghans who risk...

Afghanistan – Afghan families flee homes in south amid Taliban advance (Al Jazeera)

Farah Najjar writes: There has been intense fighting in Afghanistan in recent days, mainly in the south and the west, while a bomb-and-gun attack in...

Afghanistan – The power of technical and vocational skills: Increasing girls’ participation in formal agriculture education in Afghanistan (Brookings)

Nangyalai Attal writes: In March 2021, I visited an agriculture and veterinary institute (AVI) in northern Balkh province in Afghanistan. With state-of-the-art educational infrastructure...

USA/Afghanistan – The US has no feasible strategy to protect its diplomats in Afghanistan (Observer Research Foundation)

Saaransh Mishra writes: Most American combat troops have now left Afghanistan, with the remaining scheduled to depart by the end of August. Amongst a...

China/Afghanistan – China sees both an opportunity and a threat in Afghanistan (ORF)

KABIR TANEJA writes for ORF: China’s foreign minister Wang Yi recently hosted a delegation of the Taliban, led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in...

Russia/Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan/Afghanistan/Defense – Russia redeploys attack aircraft from Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan for drills on Afghan border (TASS)

TASS writes: A wing of Russian Su-25 ground attack aircraft has redeployed from Russia’s Kant integrated airbase in Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan for the joint...