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The agreement with the Taliban calls for U.S. troops to withdraw entirely, but some conditions in the deal may prevent that.
The organization's leader was arrested, then his successor. Now it will try to regroup.
The International Criminal Court’s authorization of an investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan represents the culmination of a complex debate over the law and politics of a probe into the court’s most powerful and persistent critic.
The deal signed in Doha is a major achievement, but will require rigorous enforcement of the terms to succeed.
Warlords are often necessary tools of statecraft, but support for them often comes at the expense of building a functioning central government.
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With this U.N. Security Council vote, the U.S. has made good on a promise included in the peace agreement with the Taliban. But many are skeptical of the deal.
The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation held a hearing on prospects for peace in Afghanistan at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, 2020. The subcommittee heard testimony from Laurel Miller, the former State Department acting special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan; Douglas Lute, the former U.S. permanent representative to NATO; and Luke Coffey, the director of the Center for Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation.
The U.S.-Taliban peace agreement technically conditions U.S. military withdrawal on the Taliban’s agreement to deny al-Qaeda the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist safe haven. But the agreement is lopsided.
The United States just made two different deals with the Taliban and the Afghan government. Can they be reconciled?