Courtney Schuster is a research associate with the International Security Program at New America and an assistant editor with the South Asia Channel.
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Courtney Schuster
Indian pedestrians wade through a waterlogged neighbourhood in Mumbai on June 19, 2015. Heavy monsoon showers lashed India's financial capital resulting in waterlogging in low lying areas of the city disrupting normal life. AFP PHOTO / INDRANIL MUKHERJEE (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the school year at Amani High School in Kabul on March 19, 2015. President Ghani said deprivation of children from school and closure of schools are enmity against Islam and Afghanistan. Over 8 million Afghans are going to schools, and 42 percent of them are girls, a great achievement for Afghan girls as they were banned during the Taliban regime before 2001. AFP PHOTO / WAKIL Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan former Taliban fighters are photographed holding weapons before they hand them over as part of a government peace and reconciliation process at a ceremony in Jalalabad on February 8, 2015. Over twenty former Taliban fighters from Achin district of Nangarhar province handed over weapons as part of a peace reconciliation program. AFP PHOTO / Noorullah Shirzada (Photo credit should read Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)
TO GO WITH Afghanistan-unrest-militias,FOCUS by Anuj Chopra
This photograph taken on May 23, 2015, shows Afghan militia forces walking with their weapons in Kunduz. The commander known as Pakhsaparan, or the "wall breaker", barked out commands at his bandolier-draped fighters, part of a patchwork of anti-Taliban militias in northern Afghanistan seeking to augment hard-pressed Afghan forces in a strategy fraught with risk. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
