The Trump administration appears to be continuing its previous policy of engagement with the Taliban, which led to the 2020 Doha Agreement that paved the way for the Biden administration’s 2021 withdrawal...
Zalmay Khalilzad, the former Special Repressive for Afghanistan Reconciliation and the key architect of the Doha Agreement which aided the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, claimed that Al Qaeda’s...
In a brief Twitter thread responding to a recent article from The Washington Post, Zalmay Khalilzad, one of the key architects of the 2020 Doha Agreement that set the stage for the collapse...
Zalmay Khalilzad is blaming Afghans for the failures that resulted from his deal with the Taliban.
That's one of many problems with ‘over the horizon’ counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan.
No, the Taliban are not America’s partners
The Taliban blames America for the 9/11 hijackings in a newly-released video that was aired on Afghan television. The production, “Victorious Force 3,” is the latest in a series of short films celebrating...
The problem with Joe Biden’s ‘over the horizon’ strategy for fighting terrorism.
The Afghan military has launched multiple attacks against Al Qaeda’s network in the southern province of Helmand over the past week. Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, Al Qaeda’s regional branch that...
Plus, the Biden administration designates Iranian-backed Houthi leaders as terrorists.
The Taliban has “maintained close ties with al Qaeda” and is “very likely preparing for large-scale offensives against population centers and Afghan government installations,” according to the Defense...
The group wants a caliphate, not a power-sharing arrangement with the Afghan government.
The United States recently drafted and proposed a plan to end the conflict in Afghanistan, but it featured several proposals that are diametrically opposed to the Taliban’s ideology, opening the door...
The Way Forward for U.S. National Security
China and Russia are waiting and seeing, but the Taliban has acknowledged the president-elect.
Is the Taliban secretly helping its jihadist rivals?
General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., the commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), questioned the Taliban’s willingness to take action against al Qaeda during an online conference held last week. The...
Two recent attacks by ISIS only obscure that the Taliban is attacking the Afghan government daily.
By calling it “divine retribution” and inviting Westerners to convert to Islam, for starters.