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Afghanistan withdrawal
Military Industrial Complex

Turns out leaving Afghanistan did not unleash terror on US or region

There have been zero attacks against American-linked targets at home or abroad in the four years since the withdrawal

US troops in Syria
Middle East

Why are we still at war in Syria?

The tempo of lethal US airstrikes — not all against ISIS — continue apace, despite murky Washington strategy

Syria fall of assad
Middle East

HTS: Can these Islamists truly unify a post-Assad Syria?

This author hopes a state-centered ideological political agenda — as opposed to a violent global jihadist one — can succeed after years of dictatorship.

Rebels seize on Assad weakness, attack Aleppo
QiOSK

Rebels seize on Assad weakness, attack Aleppo

Iran, Russia, nor Hezbollah are in any position to help prevent the return of Civil War

The Taliban resistance lives on in the Lion of Panjshir's son
Middle East

The Taliban resistance lives on in the Lion of Panjshir's son

Ahmad Shah Massoud, hero of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated two days before 9/11. His namesake talks to RS.

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Asia-Pacific

Al-Zawahiri killing shows 'over-the-horizon' counterterrorism can work

Despite what critics said during the Afghanistan withdrawal, the US didn't need boots on the ground to take a top terrorist off the board.