Afghanistan

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Leaves Country As Taliban Forces Enter Kabul

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Taliban has left Afghanistan, just hours after the insurgency’s forces surrounded the nation’s capital city of Kabul Sunday — all but ensuring the collapse of the national government and a return to rule by the insurgent group for the first time in two decades. Ghani and …

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Afghan President Ghani Flees Country as Taliban Enter Kabul: ‘It’s Over’

Afghan president Ashraf Ghani fled the country on Sunday as Taliban militants entered the capital city of Kabul. Ghani flew to neighboring Tajikistan, a senior Afghan Interior Ministry official told Reuters. However, the Afghan president’s office said it “cannot say anything about Ashraf Ghani’s movement for security reasons.” “That’s it. …

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Afghanistan debacle message for US allies, including Israel – analysis

We know what that shop looks like in places like Lebanon, it’s a bankrupt operation. The US needs to reassure allies that it will stick by the region in this difficult time. The rapid fall of Afghanistan and the way in which US political and military officials, as well as …

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Unpredictable consequences from the Afghan crisis

As China, Russia, Iran and others rise to the occasion, the ascent of the Taliban may signal a post-American world order The US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the rapid advance of the Taliban are not necessarily a simple cause and effect. The US had very few troops in Afghanistan, and …

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The US should have learned from IDF withdrawals – analysis

The US’s withdrawal from Afghanistan parallels Israel’s disengagements from Gaza and Lebanon – In these scenarios, a weaker force achieved victory against a more powerful one through attrition. Twenty years after September 11, the Taliban has blitzkrieged through Afghanistan over the last month, taking province after province as the United …

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In abandoning Afghanistan, Biden shows the intervention era is over

Over the years Britain’s own foreign policy strategy has shifted from the blind presumption of the Blair years to a hard-nosed realism The most remarkable thing about America’s decision to cut and run from Afghanistan was that it took so long to come about. This is not to suggest that …

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Afganistan’daki yeni süreç neler getirecek? Türkiye ne yapmalı?

Taliban artık Afganistan’ın yönetimini resmen devralmaya hazırlanıyor. En çarpıcı gerçek de Taliban’ın adım adım ilerleyişinin ABD başta olmak üzere NATO ülkelerinin gözleri önünde gerçekleşmiş olması. Dolayısıyla yeni oluşacak yönetim ve ardındaki sır perdesi aralandıkça asıl projeksiyonu daha sağlıklı görebileceğiz. Buna rağmen olan bitenler ve elimizdeki verilerle stratejik açıdan yaşanabilecek bazı …

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Syrian Jihadis, Al-Qaeda Supporters Celebrate Afghan Taliban’s Takeovers Of Prisons And Presidential Palace, Compare Evacuation Of U.S. Embassy In Kabul To Exit From Vietnam

On August 15, 2021, forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Afghan Taliban) advanced on the outskirts of the country’s capital of Kabul after conquering most of Afghanistan in the space of a week. Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters landed atop the U.S. Embassy in the capital to evacuate personnel …

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Russian Afghanistan Expert Asatryan: Experiment In Conciliating The Taliban Is Doomed, Russia Will Revert To ‘Natural Policy’ Of Aiding The Taliban’s Enemies

Georgy Asatryan, an expert on Afghanistan, at the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as a member of Russian International Affairs Council gave an interview to Hayk Khalatyan of the Eurasia Daily on developments in Afghanistan. He called the Taliban victory “an extremely harmful and dangerous example for the international …

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Desperate Afghans Fall From Sky After Clinging to Plane Leaving Kabul

At least seven people die in the chaos, officials say, after Taliban takes over Afghanistan Seven people died during the chaos at the Kabul airport, some of which were seen on a video shared on social media showing people falling from a departing U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane. Another …

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