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In Its Last Days in Kabul, U.S. Turns to Taliban as a Partner
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Twenty years ago, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to get rid of the Taliban. Today, American forces, battered by one of the bloodiest attacks of the war, are relying for their ow...
By Lisa Curtis
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U.S. spy agencies rule out possibility the coronavirus was created as a bioweapon, say origin will stay unknown without China’s help
The U.S. intelligence community has ruled out the possibility that the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 4 million people globally was developed as a bioweapon by Ch...
By David Feith
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Pentagon says threat persists after suicide bombings at Kabul airport
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Pentagon has said that the threat persists after ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the deadly double attack at Kabul airport. An attack in Kabul claimed by Islamic State kille...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Taliban economy: Will drugs be enough to support the Afghan people?
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That is what experts are saying the Taliban will soon find after the Biden administration’s decision to abandon Afghanistan was followed by a hostile takeover of the nation by...
By Alex Zerden
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America is reliable, Harris tells allies eyeing Afghan chaos
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Vice President Kamala Harris sought to portray Washington as a reliable counterweight to China as the administration faces questions over its commitment to long-term partners ...
By Jacob Stokes
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Afghanistan chaos tests Democrats’ opposition to US military intervention
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“Now that America’s participation [in Afghanistan] is ending on such a negative note, there may well be a rethinking of the balance between US action and non-intervention,” Ri...
By Richard Fontaine
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To Invade Taiwan, The Chinese Navy Could Mobilize The World’s Biggest Transport Fleet
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The Chinese navy now has access to 1.5 million tons of shipping that could carry an assault force across the Taiwan Strait and initiate an invasion of Taiwan. For those of you...
By Tom Shugart
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What The Exit From Afghanistan Tells Us About How Biden Sees The World
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In January 2002, when the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan reopened for the first time since 1989, Ambassador Ryan Crocker said the first member of Congress to visit him in Kabul w...
By Richard Fontaine
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Three ways the victory of the Taliban might reverberate around the world
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World leaders are racing to evacuate their citizens from Afghanistan after the Taliban’s lightning takeover last week — but the impact of the Islamist militants’ control will ...
By Richard Fontaine
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‘No One Quite Knows What to Say’: A War Easily Ignored Ends With Few Answers
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At the main gate of this busy Army post is a sandstone slab etched with the names of Fort Carson soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The slab ran out of room for names in...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Was Biden handcuffed by Trump’s Taliban deal in Doha?
As President Donald Trump’s administration signed a peace deal with the Taliban in February 2020, he optimistically proclaimed that “we think we’ll be successful in the end.” ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Desperate Afghan Women Wait for U.S. Protection, as Promised
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Even as they cling to hope of being rescued by the American government, Afghan women who worked with the United States over the past 20 years are destroying any hint of that a...
By Lisa Curtis
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Vets see many US failures in Kabul. Military intelligence is just one.
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While the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces this week produced image after image of heartbreak as Afghans clung to cargo planes and women tried to lift babies over airport barri...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Afghan war vets sound off on U.S. withdrawal, Taliban’s return to power
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When the Taliban swept across Afghanistan as if the central government didn't even exist, it was almost like an erasure of history. Twenty years of war cast aside, as if none ...
By Paul Scharre
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Afghanistan's fall renews terrorism fears for US
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The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban has raised fears that terrorist groups capable of threatening the U.S. homeland will thrive anew amid the chaos. U.S. military officials...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Afghanistan collapse into Taliban rule devastates Wisconsin veterans, human rights advocates
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More than 2,300 Americans lost their lives and another 20,000 were wounded in the 20-year, $2 trillion war in Afghanistan. And in just days, the country was taken over by the ...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Can America Still Help Afghanistan? 8 Former Officials on What’s Next.
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With the Taliban’s takeover, many Afghans have expressed deep feelings of betrayal by the United States for leaving Afghanistan behind in a dangerous and uncertain new phase. ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Was the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan inevitable?
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The swift collapse of the Afghan government has reinforced US President Joe Biden’s argument that nothing more could have been done. But was the Taliban’s victory inevitable? ...
By Richard Fontaine
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West faces wrenching choice on dealing with Taliban
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After two decades trying to destroy the Taliban, Western powers face the wrenching decision of whether to deal with the Islamist insurgents who have taken over Afghanistan. Th...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden faces lasting blemish from Afghanistan exit
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President Biden is facing criticism over his administration’s withdrawal from the two-decade conflict in Afghanistan that could leave a lasting blemish on his presidency. Bide...
By Richard Fontaine
