List of Afghanistan articles
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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.
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Burqa-clad women shop at a market in Kabul. In Taliban’s New Afghan Emirate, Women Are Invisible
“All the women of Afghanistan have one fear, the Taliban,” said former deputy defense minister Munera Yousufzada.
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A U.S. soldier shoots in the air with his pistol while standing guard behind barbed wire as Afghans sit on a roadside near the military part of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 20. What Should Biden Have Done in Afghanistan?
Withdrawal was always bound to be chaotic, but wishful thinking, poor planning, and glacial bureaucracies have made a difficult situation worse.
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A group of orphaned Afghan girls ‘Support Is Not Just About Money’
A U.S. veteran of Afghan heritage reflects on a complicated relationship between two far-apart nations.
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Taliban delegation in Moscow Chinese Recognition of the Taliban Is All but Inevitable
The geostrategic and economic benefits of closer relations are too great for Beijing to ignore.
