14 months later: Five conclusions on Afghanistan withdrawal
The Taliban is still in charge and seeking international recognition. So is there any realistic way for the US to help move things forward?
The Taliban is still in charge and seeking international recognition. So is there any realistic way for the US to help move things forward?
We asked more than 20 scholars, journalists, and advocates how they feel today about the decision to leave, one year after the fall of Kabul.
The Biden administration is reiterating its case for ending the war, while Republicans are focused on the evacuation.
Washington has still not recognized the new government of Afghanistan, but was on hand in major talks about frozen funds and aid.
Will the administration take additional steps to help Afghanistan or sit on the sidelines because it won’t recognize the government?
Moral policing has split the movement between traditionalists and the majority outside the decision-making process.
20 million are going hungry as frozen funds and equally frozen diplomacy keep this country in a frightening state of limbo.
A new report finds that Afghanistan’s military was set up to fail once the Americans pulled out.
A new book puts together documents uncovered at Osama bin Laden’s hideout and finds the roots of a 20-year threat inflation.
The attacks, which killed more than 45 people this weekend, were in retaliation for a spring offensive by the TPP, a Taliban ally.
The Taliban takeover pummeled the country’s economic sector; how can the international community help the Afghan people survive?
The US Treasury waiver will allow commercial transactions and cross-border trade previously prohibited under anti-Taliban sanctions.
Two big ones — nearly 50 years apart — marked the biggest US foreign policy disasters in recent memory.
New data shows stunning plunge in coverage, just as the humanitarian crisis — much of it caused by Washington sanctions — peaks.
PM Khan is allowing radicalism to fester, giving militants more of a say in foreign policy. This is putting a strain on US relations, too.
The decision to freeze nearly $10 billion in government assets has put an already impoverished country on the brink of state collapse.
The former Afghan envoy popped up at a conference of U.S. war policy critics. He agrees with them, and perhaps that’s all that matters.
The only “winners” in the two-decade war are the members of America’s military-industrial-congressional complex.
In his first interview post-Afghanistan withdrawal, the longtime US diplomat is sometimes selective, other times brutally honest.
A veteran war correspondent recalls the ignorance, poor judgement, exceptionalism, and hubris in all of our interventions.
At first sight, the insurgents’ return to power is good news for Pakistan, but this could prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.