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Afghanistan

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of Afghanistan, including analysis of what the Taliban’s resurgence means for everyday life, women’s rights, regional politics, and more.

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Afghanistan’s Women Are on Their Own

How the International Community Turned Its Back

Shaharzad Akbar

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Why the Press Failed on Iraq

What the Neocons Got Wrong

Let Afghanistan Rebuild

The Unwinnable War

Time to Get Tough on the Taliban

Lisa Curtis , Nader Nadery

Is Afghanistan’s Long Civil War Really Over?

Carter Malkasian

Afghanistan’s Women Are on Their Own

Shaharzad Akbar

What the Taliban Really Fear

Ali Maisam Nazary

Can the Taliban Be Contained?

Talk to the Taliban—but Don’t Trust Them

Graeme Smith , Ibraheem Bahiss

India’s Gamble in Afghanistan

Tricia Bacon , Asfandyar Mir

How to Build Putin a Gilded Bridge Out of Ukraine

Dominic Tierney

Pakistan Reaps What It Sowed

The Taliban Have Not Moderated

Dipali Mukhopadhyay

Putin’s Afghanistan

The West Still Doesn’t Understand the Taliban

Carter Malkasian

The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan

Lawrence D. Freedman

Lost Innocents

Sarah Holewinski

Afghanistan’s Most Dangerous Threat

The Search for Stability in Afghanistan

Stop Starving Afghanistan

When Terrorists Govern

Colin P. Clarke

Afghanistan’s Looming Catastrophe

P. Michael McKinley

New Afghanistan, Same Old Taliban

The ICC’s Flawed Afghan Investigation

Kelebogile Zvobgo

The Future of America’s Drone Campaign

Audrey Kurth Cronin

Why Afghanistan Fell

The Last Days of Intervention

How Pakistan Sees Afghanistan

How America Should Deal With the Taliban

American Power After Afghanistan

Jessica T. Mathews

Al Qaeda Versus ISIS

China’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Seth G. Jones , Jude Blanchette

Beyond Forever War

Daniel Benjamin , Steven Simon

America’s Perennial Pakistan Problem

Afghanistan’s Corruption Was Made in America

American Credibility After Afghanistan

Joshua D. Kertzer

The Right Lessons From Afghanistan

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Afghanistan Was Lost Long Ago

The Real Saigon Analogy

Mark Atwood Lawrence

Why America Can’t Build Allied Armies

The Roads Not Taken in Afghanistan

Two Books on the U.S. War in Afghanistan

Lawrence D. Freedman

How Will the Taliban Rule?

Carter Malkasian

A Post-American Central Asia

Alexander Cooley

Failure in Afghanistan Won’t Weaken America’s Alliances

Will Afghanistan Become a Terrorist Safe Haven Again?

Why the Taliban Won

Vanda Felbab-Brown

We All Lost Afghanistan

P. Michael McKinley

Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success

Pakistan’s Pyrrhic Victory in Afghanistan

A Taliban Victory Is Not Inevitable

Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold

Is Washington Right to Leave Afghanistan?

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

P. Michael McKinley

The Taliban Are Ready to Exploit America’s Exit

Carter Malkasian

In or Out of Afghanistan Is Not a Political Choice

Sarah Kreps , Douglas Kriner

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

G. John Ikenberry

Why Are Al Qaeda Leaders in Iran?

The Myth of a Responsible Withdrawal From Afghanistan

There Is Only One Way Out of Afghanistan

Barnett R. Rubin

Defense In Depth

Kori Schake , Jim Mattis , Jim Ellis , Joseph H. Felter

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

Al Qaeda’s Franchise Reboot

Asfandyar Mir , Colin P. Clarke

What Iran Wants in Afghanistan

Colin P. Clarke , Ariane M. Tabatabai

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

David Petraeus , Vance Serchuk

Peace Hasn’t Broken Out in Afghanistan

The Real Test in Afghanistan Is Still to Come

Carter Malkasian

The Taliban at War, 2001–2018

Lawrence D. Freedman

The Price of Primacy

Stephen Wertheim

How the Good War Went Bad

Carter Malkasian

Modi Pushes India Into Revolt

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

How Iran Found Its Feet in Afghanistan

What a Withdrawal From Afghanistan Would Look Like

Carter Malkasian

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

Diplomacy Can’t Solve All of Afghanistan’s Problems

Barnett R. Rubin

Lessons From Vietnam on Leaving Afghanistan

George C. Herring

Helmand’s Flower That Threatens Us All

Matthew S. Reid , Cybele C. Greenberg

Negotiations Are the Best Way to End the War in Afghanistan

Barnett R. Rubin

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?

Barnett R. Rubin

Why Peace Talks Are Washington's Best Bet in Afghanistan

Vikram J. Singh

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

Stanley McChrystal , Kosh Sadat

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

Trump's Surge in Afghanistan

Daniel Byman , Steven Simon

Trump's Afghan Plan

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

Afghanistan's Deadly Identity Politics

Patricia Gossman

Calling Pakistan's Bluff

Whitney Kassel , Philip Reiner

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