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Regions Asia South Asia Afghanistan

Afghanistan

The Taliban Have Not Moderated

Putin’s Afghanistan

The West Still Doesn’t Understand the Taliban

The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan

The Search for Stability in Afghanistan

Stop Starving Afghanistan

When Terrorists Govern

Afghanistan’s Looming Catastrophe

New Afghanistan, Same Old Taliban

The ICC’s Flawed Afghan Investigation

The Future of America’s Drone Campaign

Why Afghanistan Fell

The Last Days of Intervention

How Pakistan Sees Afghanistan

How America Should Deal With the Taliban

American Power After Afghanistan

Al Qaeda Versus ISIS

China’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Beyond Forever War

America’s Perennial Pakistan Problem

Afghanistan’s Corruption Was Made in America

American Credibility After Afghanistan

The Right Lessons From Afghanistan

Afghanistan Was Lost Long Ago

The Real Saigon Analogy

Why America Can’t Build Allied Armies

The Roads Not Taken in Afghanistan

Two Books on the U.S. War in Afghanistan

How Will the Taliban Rule?

A Post-American Central Asia

Failure in Afghanistan Won’t Weaken America’s Alliances

Will Afghanistan Become a Terrorist Safe Haven Again?

Why the Taliban Won

We All Lost Afghanistan

Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success

Pakistan’s Pyrrhic Victory in Afghanistan

A Taliban Victory Is Not Inevitable

Is Washington Right to Leave Afghanistan?

Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold

America Still Needs Counterinsurgency

America’s Longest War

Defending or Abandoning Afghan Women Is a False Choice

Afghanistan’s Moment of Risk and Opportunity

Biden Made the Right Decision on Afghanistan

The Taliban Are Ready to Exploit America’s Exit

In or Out of Afghanistan Is Not a Political Choice

The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World

Why Are Al Qaeda Leaders in Iran?

The Myth of a Responsible Withdrawal From Afghanistan

There Is Only One Way Out of Afghanistan

Defense In Depth

U.S. Foreign Policy Never Recovered From the War on Terror

Al Qaeda’s Franchise Reboot

What Iran Wants in Afghanistan

Can America Trust the Taliban to Prevent Another 9/11?

Peace Hasn’t Broken Out in Afghanistan

The Real Test in Afghanistan Is Still to Come

The Taliban at War, 2001–2018

The Price of Primacy

How the Good War Went Bad

Modi Pushes India Into Revolt

How Iran Found Its Feet in Afghanistan

What a Withdrawal From Afghanistan Would Look Like

A Deal With the Taliban Is Only the First Step Toward Peace

Diplomacy Can’t Solve All of Afghanistan’s Problems

Helmand’s Flower That Threatens Us All

Negotiations Are the Best Way to End the War in Afghanistan

Is the Taliban Making a Pledge It Cannot Keep?

Building the Nation: Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan

The Taliban’s Battle Plan

Is the Taliban Prepared to Make Peace?

Is Afghanistan Ready for Peace?

Why Peace Talks Are Washington's Best Bet in Afghanistan

The Hazaras and the Afghan State: Rebellion, Exclusion, and the Struggle for Recognition

Why the Taliban Isn't Winning in Afghanistan

Russia's Afghanistan Strategy

Why the U.S. Can No Longer Ignore the ICC

Staying the Course in Afghanistan

Is It Time for a Major U.S. Drawdown in Afghanistan?

Trump's Surge in Afghanistan

Trump's Afghan Plan

How an Afghan Immigrant From New York Got Caught in Turkey's Purge

Afghanistan's Deadly Identity Politics

Calling Pakistan's Bluff

Germany's Other Refugees

A Flawed Plan for Afghanistan

Four Ways Forward in Afghanistan

Adrift in Afghanistan

How to Stabilize Afghanistan

What Drives Insider Attacks in Afghanistan?

How Trump Should Manage Afghanistan

Danger on the Durand Line

The Corleones of Kabul

Saudi Arabia and Iran Face Off in Afghanistan

Making Afghanistan Self-Reliant

Losing in Afghanistan

Dirty Money in Afghanistan

Good News From Afghanistan

Afghanistan After Mansour

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