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The Afghan government may be faltering, but the country's elites are too invested to let it fail. Here's how the United States can help them shore up their institutions.
Seth Jones explains how the Islamic State's rivalry with the Afghan Taliban is keeping the terrorist organization in check.
The DOD airstrike that may have killed Taliban leader Mullah Mansour is interesting, from a legal perspective, at many levels. From an international law perspective, as Marty Lederman explains here, it looks to be another example of action under color of the much-discussed unwilling/unable principle (unless of course there was conse
HASC releases its report on Bowe Bergdahl as NPR's Serial launches second season on former Taliban prisoner.
If initial reports are confirmed, this month may go down as one of the gravest in recent memory for hospitals in war.
Stephen Watts and Sean Mann respond to Gary Owen's critique of their piece on the future of Afghanistan, arguing that although things may not be going "great" in Afghanistan, the picture is not quite as bleak as Owen makes it out to be.
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After an unprecedented 11 months of silence, Ayman al-Zawahri, the emir of al-Qaida, this week issued a video message proclaiming his loyalty to the new head of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. The almost 10-minute long message dramatically reaffirms the alliance between al-Qaida and the Taliban, a setback for efforts to bring the Taliban into a political process.
Gary Owen, the man behind the Afghanistan blog Sunny in Kabul, argues that, contrary to the relatively rosy picture of Afghanistan painted by Stephen Watts and Sean Mann in a Foreign Policy essay we ran on Lawfare a few weeks back, Afghanistan's future is pretty grim.
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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
God says: