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How Can the West Handle the Taliban?


How Can the West Handle the Taliban? - Foreign Policy

How Can the West Handle the Taliban? Regional engagement shows the possibilities—and obstacles—in Afghanistan. By Jens Vesterlund Mathiesen, ...

How Can the West Handle the Taliban?

Trump will inherit a nearly deadlocked U.S. relationship with the Taliban, amid a waning Western focus. While Afghanistan's neighbors are ...

Meeting of U.S. Officials with Taliban Representatives

On July 30 and 31, Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West ... U.S. officials urged the Taliban to reverse policies responsible for ...

What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan ...

At various points, the U.S. government hoped to eliminate al-Qaeda, decimate the Taliban movement that hosted it, deny all terrorist groups a safe haven in ...

Rethinking Talks with the Taliban | Crisis Group

Rethinking Talks with the Taliban. Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban have failed to make their regime more politically inclusive or ...

The Taliban's three years in power and what lies ahead

To advance its interests, the United States should reconcile itself to building a low-level equilibrium with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Taliban tell the West to look past harsh edicts on Afghan women ...

The Taliban uphold certain religious and cultural values that “must be acknowledged,” a spokesman said at a U.N.-led meeting in Qatar from ...

The scattered forces opposing the Taliban need support now

The international community must stop allowing the Taliban to dictate terms and nurture an opposition if Afghanistan is ever to progress, writes David Loyn.

Taliban call on West to build deeper ties, ignore curbs on women

Zabihullah Mujahid, chief spokesperson of the Taliban's interim government, is leading the Kabul delegation. Addressing the gathering, Mujahid ...

Who are the Taliban? - BBC News

The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021, two decades after being removed from power by a US-led military coalition.

Timeline: The U.S. War in Afghanistan - Council on Foreign Relations

The Taliban surged back to power two decades after U.S.-led forces toppled their regime in what led to the United States' longest war.

The Future of Assistance for Afghanistan: A Dilemma - CSIS

At the same time, large-scale humanitarian aid has allowed the Taliban to abdicate their responsibility to meet the needs of the Afghan people, ...

Russia's Growing Ties With Afghanistan Are More Symbolism Than ...

As Russia's relationship with the West has deteriorated, the Kremlin's view of the Taliban has changed. But substantive economic cooperation will be hard to ...

Afghanistan Peace Efforts

Almost 20 years after the United States ousted the Taliban regime, the first direct peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government began in Doha, ...

One Year After Seizing Power, Is The Taliban Here To Stay?

The Taliban toppled the Western-backed Afghan government and seized power one year ago. Since then, the militant group has solidified its grip on power and ...

NATO and Afghanistan

In February 2020, the United States and the Taliban signed an agreement on the withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan by May 2021.

Iran's Ambiguous Role in Afghanistan - Combating Terrorism Center

In addition to killing hundreds of Shi`a Muslims, the Taliban stormed the Iranian Consulate in the city and killed eight Iranian diplomats and an Iranian ...

Taliban history of war and peace in Afghanistan - AWS

Felix Kuehn is the co-editor of My Life with the Taliban, the autobiography of the former Taliban envoy to Pakistan, Mullah. Abdul Salam Zaeef (Hurst, ...

U.S. Relations With Afghanistan - United States Department of State

On February 29, 2020, the United States and the Taliban signed the Doha Agreement, which led to the August 30, 2021, withdrawal of U.S. and ...

Afghanistan Three Years after the Taliban Takeover | Crisis Group

The Taliban came back to power in Kabul as the previous Afghan government collapsed amid the US and NATO withdrawal from the country in August 2021.