List of Afghanistan articles
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Afghan schoolchildren study at a destroyed high school. Biden’s Conundrum: How to Pressure the Taliban Without Hurting Afghans
After 20 years of building up Afghanistan, can the United States really cut the country off now?
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North Vietnamese Army tanks take over the South Vietnamese presidential palace. Stop Comparing Afghanistan’s Fall to South Vietnam’s
Americans are still using the lens of a half century-old conflict.
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Taliban special force fighters stand guard next to a plane. America Isn’t Exceptional Anymore
The United States can no longer claim to be the leader of the free world if it abandons strategic allies and vulnerable civilians.
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Afghans wait for the banks to open in Kabul. U.S. Troop Pullout Sparks New Urgency for Afghan Evacuations
There’s little expectation the Taliban will make it easy to leave.
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U.S. Marines keep watch as unseen Afghan National Army soldiers participate in an improvised explosive device training exercise in Lashkar Gah in the Afghan province of Helmand on Aug. 28, 2017. The CIA Is Better Than the U.S. Military at Creating Foreign Armies
The failure of the Afghan army is a reminder that Pentagon-led security cooperation programs are more expensive and less effective than those led by spies.
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A demonstrator shows Pakistani currency notes contributed by the protestors for holy war against America and to help Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia during an anti-US protest rally of a Sunni extremist group Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) in Islamabad on September 28, 2001. Can the West Make the Taliban Moderate?
The United States has leverage over the new Afghan government. Here’s how to use it.
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Taliban fighters sit on the back of a pickup truck at the airport in Kabul on Aug. 31. The Taliban Can’t Control Afghanistan. That Should Worry the West.
The risk of a terrorist resurgence comes primarily from the Taliban’s Islamic State rivals.
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A U.S. military plane prepares to board evacuees at Kabul’s airport. Last U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan After 20 Years of War
More than a hundred American citizens remain in the Taliban-controlled country.
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The leader of the Taliban negotiating team Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar walks after the final declaration of the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Qatar's capital Doha on July 18, 2021. What Diversity Means for the Taliban
The new Afghan government will likely include ethnicities other than the Taliban’s own. But women are probably out of luck.
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Afghan men wave a flag above the portrait of late Afghan commander Ahmad Shah Massoud. Ahmad Massoud: ‘Peace Does Not Mean to Surrender’
The leader of the Afghan anti-Taliban resistance vows to battle in the encircled Panjshir Valley to keep alive his father’s dream.
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Chinese yuan banknotes are seen behind an illuminated stock graph on Feb. 10, 2020. Dado Ruvic Illustration/REUTERS After Afghanistan, Biden Can Learn From How Fund Managers Handle Their Disasters
Five basic strategies from investment analysis apply to war and diplomacy too.
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Afghan refugees arrive in Virginia Anti-Interventionism Isn’t Enough for Left Foreign Policy
Afghanistan shows that the American left is in danger of losing the moral plot.
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A military transport plane takes off in Kabul. The Falling Man of Kabul
Zaki Anwari represented what a free Afghanistan could achieve. His gruesome death is a vivid reminder of the human toll of U.S. abandonment.
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A U.S. Air Force aircraft takes off from the military airport in Kabul on Aug. 27. Ending the Forever Wars Was Never Up to Us
Leaving Afghanistan will not stop terrorism or leave the threats the United States faces behind.
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A man watches a new documentary tracing the life of Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the Haqqani network, a violent Taliban wing, on a monitor in Islamabad on Oct. 23, 2020. It’s Crazy to Trust the Haqqanis
A faction of the new Afghan government is extraordinarily close to al Qaeda and other terror groups—including the Islamic State.
