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Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan accelerated downward spiral in polls
In The News
The perception that the administration was shifting the goalposts further dented public confidence, said Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security and an...
By Richard Fontaine
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Taliban haven’t changed, resistance by Afghans to grow, says ex-US security official Lisa Curtis
In The News
Afghans will gradually push back against the Taliban, and this will strengthen the national resistance movement against the regime, according to Lisa Curtis, a former US Natio...
By Lisa Curtis
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Republican report details Biden administration failings in Afghanistan
In The News
For Lisa Curtis, senior fellow and director of the Centre for a New American Security's Indo-Pacific Security Programme, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan will haunt Mr Biden...
By Lisa Curtis
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CNAS Responds: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri killed in drone strike
Press Note
Center for a New American Security experts offer insight into the ramifications of the CIA-led killing of al Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri and the lasting legacy of the global war ...
By Richard Fontaine, Paul Scharre, Lisa Curtis, Carrie Cordero, Christopher D. Kolenda & Dr. Jason Dempsey
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What Zawahri’s killing means for Afghanistan’s frozen $3.5B
In The News
A consequence of killing al Qaeda leader AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI in Kabul is that the Biden administration may not soon return the $3.5 billion it took from the Afghan people. In Feb...
By Lisa Curtis
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With foreign funds frozen, Afghan aid groups stuck in limbo
In The News
A month after the fall of Kabul, the world is still wrestling with how to help Afghanistan’s impoverished people without propping up their Taliban leaders — a question that gr...
By Lisa Curtis
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Trump wanted out of Afghanistan. Now he wants to bomb it.
Donald Trump spent years arguing that America’s “endless wars” were draining the country of resources and lives. But in the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from ...
By Lisa Curtis
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In Afghan Withdrawal, a Biden Doctrine Surfaces
In The News
In the chaotic finale of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, a Biden Doctrine is emerging: a foreign policy that avoids the aggressive tactics of forever wars and nation bui...
By Lisa Curtis
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The U.S. ground war in Afghanistan is over. Now it’s the Navy’s turn.
In The News
The American military’s involvement in Afghanistan could soon become largely the Navy’s responsibility, an ironic twist for a counterterrorism mission in a landlocked country....
By Becca Wasser
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Short on Money, Legal and Otherwise, the Taliban Face a Crisis
In The News
As Afghans pay surging prices for eggs and flour and stand in long lines at the bank, money changers like Enayatullah and his underground financial lifeline have found themsel...
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. presses Pakistan as Afghan crisis spirals, leaked docs show
In The News
The Biden administration is quietly pressing Pakistan to cooperate on fighting terrorist groups such as ISIS-K and Al Qaeda in the wake of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan....
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden’s Rushed Afghan Exit Adds Strains to U.S.-Pakistan Ties
Joe Biden’s hopes of keeping the Afghan Taliban in check will rely heavily on Pakistan, a neighboring nation that has close ties to the militant group but which has often prov...
By Lisa Curtis & Richard Fontaine
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Underestimating the enemy: why Biden’s Afghanistan exit went so badly wrong
In The News
On July 8, Joe Biden stepped into the East Room of the White House to deliver a confident update on the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.The US military had left Bagra...
By Richard Fontaine
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America bombs Islamic State. Once it quits Afghanistan, can it still?
In The News
“TO THOSE WHO carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this,” said President Joe Biden, speaking after a suicide-bombing at Kabul airport kille...
By Lisa Curtis
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In Its Last Days in Kabul, U.S. Turns to Taliban as a Partner
In The News
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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Pentagon says threat persists after suicide bombings at Kabul airport
In The News
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?
In The News
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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Afghanistan chaos tests Democrats’ opposition to US military intervention
In The News
“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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What The Exit From Afghanistan Tells Us About How Biden Sees The World
In The News
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
In The News
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
