Tag: Afghanistan

Afghanistan – Taliban fighters launch attack on Ghazni (Al Jazeera)

Taliban fighters have launched an attack on Ghazni, clashing with Afghan forces and using explosives in an attempt to seize the central Afghan city,...

India/Afghanistan – India’s Afghanistan challenge (Harsh V Pant, ORF)

As the situation in Afghanistan veers towards some sort of a denouement, India has once again reiterated its commitment to Afghanistan and enunciated the...

Afghanistan – How did Afghanistan get to this crisis point? (Amin Saikal, The Strategist)

Afghanistan has been through many painful and destructive transitions in its modern history since its consolidation as a recognisable country from the mid-18th century,...

USA/Afghanistan – How will the US protect its collaborators in Afghanistan? (Al Jazeera)

For nearly 20 years, thousands of Afghans have risked their lives to work with US troops, in what became America’s longest war. But that war...

Afghanistan – Thousands flee fighting between government, Taliban (Al Jazeera)

About 5,000 Afghan families have fled their homes in the northern city of Kunduz after days of fighting between Taliban fighters and government forces,...

USA/Afghanistan – Afghanistan is ‘Not a Winnable War,’ White House Says as Taliban Storms Country (Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One)

The conflict in Afghanistan—which the United States is preparing to hand over to the government in Kabul—is “not a winnable war,” White House Press...

USA/Afghanistan – White House, Pentagon Finalizing Plans to Get Thousands of Interpreters out of Afghanistan (Tara Copp, Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One)

After weeks of pledges to not leave behind interpreters who have worked side by side with U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Pentagon and White House...

USA/Afghanistan – Uncertainty About Post-Withdrawal Plans Clouds Biden’s Upcoming Meeting with Afghanistan’s Ghani (Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One)

None of the questions about how the United States will support the Afghan government after September is likely to be answered when President Biden...

Afghanistan – Children Detained, Tortured for Insurgent Links (HRW)

The Afghan government should release children detained for alleged association with armed insurgent groups and work with the United Nations and donors to establish programs for...

Afghanistan – Standing with Afghanistan: Inclusion and women’s rights in peace talks (Azadah Raz Mohammad, Jenna Sapiano, Felicity Gerry, Jacqui True, The Interpreter)

The agreement signed by the United States and the Taliban in February 2020 sought to end America’s (and Australia’s) longest-running war. After nearly two decades of...

Afghanistan/USA/China – Fuori gli Usa, dentro la Cina? L’Afghanistan (ancora) conteso (Vas Shenoy, Formiche)

Nell’ultimo summit della Nato, prima del suo ritiro dall’Afghanistan, non c’era tra gli invitati il presidente afghano Ashraf Ghani. Rimangono meno di 100 giorni per...

China/Afghanistan – China’s New Security Concept for Afghanistan (Emil Avdaliani, BESA Center)

Xi Jinping, photo by Jean-Marc Ferré for UN Geneva via Flickr CC EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The announced withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan could represent an opportunity...

Afghanistan/USA – Why America should protect local allies in Afghanistan (Saaransh Mishra, ORF)

The impending withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan has fomented fears regarding the future of thousands of Afghan translators, interpreters, and other local allies...

Afghanistan/Russia/USA – The Russian perspective on the Afghanistan situation post US withdrawal (Georgi Asatryan, ORF)

Afghanistan is not yet destined to become like Switzerland, and full-fledged peace in this state will not be a reality in the foreseeable future....

Afghanistan/Russia/China/Iran – How Russia, China, and Iran will shape Afghanistan’s future (Nilofar Sakhi, Atlantic Council)

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's deputy leader and negotiator, and other delegation members attend the Afghan peace conference in Moscow, Russia, on March...

Afghanistan/USA – Afghanistan after American withdrawal: Part 3 — Where external actors have leverage (Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings)

U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan is about to usher in a new political and social dispensation in the country. Earlier in this three-part blog...