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(USA/Afghanistan) Inclusivity is key to salvaging the US–Taliban Doha deal (East Asia Forum)

Imtiaz Gul, CRSS Islamabad The deal struck by the United States with the Afghan Taliban in Doha on 29 February 2020 was de facto recognition...

Uncategorized March 5, 2021

(Afghanistan) Seven Ethnic Hazaras Killed in Eastern Afghanistan (The Defense Post)

At least seven members of Afghanistan’s persecuted Hazara ethnic group were brutally murdered in the country’s restive east, officials said Thursday, in the latest...

Uncategorized March 4, 2021

(Afghanistan) Three Female Media Workers Shot to Death in Eastern Afghanistan (The Defense Post)

Three female media workers were shot and killed in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, their TV network said, in what appeared...

Uncategorized March 3, 2021

(Afghanistan/USA) Afghans’ views on the Doha peace process and the Biden administration’s review of the US-Taliban peace agreement

Makhfi Azizi After briefly resuming on January 5, the intra-Afghan peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban have been slow to progress, and the two sides have not met since the...

Uncategorized February 26, 2021

(Afghanistan) Attacks Targeting Afghan Civilians Spread Terror (HRW)

Patricia Gossman With Afghan peace talks making little progress, the latest report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) makes for grim reading. Although 2020...

Uncategorized February 24, 2021

(Pakistan/Afghanistan) Pakistan ‘Optimistic’ About Progress in Stalemated Afghan Peace Process (VoA)

Ayaz Gul Pakistan’s military said Monday that efforts aimed at moving forward a stalemated peace process in neighboring Afghanistan are “progressing in a very positive...

Uncategorized February 23, 2021

(USA/Afghanistan) How to bargain with the Taliban (War on the Rocks)

BARNETT RUBIN President Joe Biden will soon have to decide whether to withdraw the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan by May 1, as stipulated by the February 2020 Doha agreement. https://warontherocks.com/2021/02/how-to-bargain-with-the-taliban/

Uncategorized February 20, 2021

(Afghanistan/USA) Expand demining to facilitate Afghan peace (AEI)

Michael Rubin The Afghan peace process continues amidst uncertainty about the speed and totality of American withdrawal, disappointment at Taliban noncompliance, and questions about where an intra-Afghan dialogue might...

Uncategorized February 19, 2021

(USA/Afghanistan) Afghan Study Group’s New Report Would Guarantee Failure (1945)

Daniel Davis When a report comes out of Washington that has been co-authored by a who’s who group of, among others, former Secretaries of Defense,...

Uncategorized February 13, 2021

(Tajikistan/Afghanistan/China) Porosity of Tajik-Afghan Border Making Beijing’s Involvement in Region More Ominous (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble In most parts of the world, the lines on maps separating countries are true borders. That is, they are controlled by the governments...

Uncategorized February 12, 2021

(USA/Afghanistan) May 2021 should not be seen as a unilateral deadline for the United States to leave Afghanistan (Brookings)

Madiha Afzal https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/02/10/may-2021-should-not-be-seen-as-a-unilateral-deadline-for-the-united-states-to-leave-afghanistan/

Uncategorized February 11, 2021

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