List of Afghanistan articles
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Afghan refugees arrive in Virginia Anti-Interventionism Isn’t Enough for Left Foreign Policy
Afghanistan shows that the American left is in danger of losing the moral plot.
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A military transport plane takes off in Kabul. The Falling Man of Kabul
Zaki Anwari represented what a free Afghanistan could achieve. His gruesome death is a vivid reminder of the human toll of U.S. abandonment.
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A U.S. Air Force aircraft takes off from the military airport in Kabul on Aug. 27. Ending the Forever Wars Was Never Up to Us
Leaving Afghanistan will not stop terrorism or leave the threats the United States faces behind.
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A man watches a new documentary tracing the life of Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the Haqqani network, a violent Taliban wing, on a monitor in Islamabad on Oct. 23, 2020. It’s Crazy to Trust the Haqqanis
A faction of the new Afghan government is extraordinarily close to al Qaeda and other terror groups—including the Islamic State.
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Burqa-clad women shop at a market in Kabul. In Taliban’s New Afghan Emirate, Women Are Invisible
“All the women of Afghanistan have one fear, the Taliban,” said former deputy defense minister Munera Yousufzada.
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A U.S. soldier shoots in the air with his pistol while standing guard behind barbed wire as Afghans sit on a roadside near the military part of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 20. What Should Biden Have Done in Afghanistan?
Withdrawal was always bound to be chaotic, but wishful thinking, poor planning, and glacial bureaucracies have made a difficult situation worse.
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A group of orphaned Afghan girls ‘Support Is Not Just About Money’
A U.S. veteran of Afghan heritage reflects on a complicated relationship between two far-apart nations.
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Taliban delegation in Moscow Chinese Recognition of the Taliban Is All but Inevitable
The geostrategic and economic benefits of closer relations are too great for Beijing to ignore.
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Backpacks and belongings of Afghan people post-Kabul airport bombing Chinese Firms Don’t Want to Pay Afghanistan’s Costs
The country is too chaotic for Beijing to exploit economically.
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Abdul Aziz, an elder Afghan money changer, takes a break sitting behind bundles of afghanis at the main currency exchange market in Kabul on July 18, 2002. Don’t Abandon Afghanistan’s Economy Too
As the chances of evacuation dwindle, the West owes Afghans a chance at surviving in their own country.
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France's President Emmanuel Macron talks to U.S. President Joe Biden before a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels on June 14, 2021. The Real Reason U.S. Allies Are Upset About Afghanistan
The anger is real—but anguished humanitarianism is just part of it.
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Taliban fighters in a vehicle patrol the streets of Kabul on Aug. 23. The Taliban Are Far Closer to the Islamic State Than They Claim
The terror group behind the Kabul attacks has close ties to the Haqqani network.
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Taliban fighters stand on a pickup truck outside a hospital after explosions outside the Kabul airport. Attacks Raise Fears of Terrorist Safe Haven in Afghanistan
Two blasts hamper evacuation effort.
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Medical and hospital staff bring an injured man on a stretcher for treatment after two powerful explosions outside the airport in Kabul on Aug. 26. Is Islamic Terrorism Coming to the U.S. Again?
After the deadly Kabul attack, the CIA pins its hopes on an unconventional counterterrorism strategy.
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Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid arrives at the first press conference in Kabul following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan on Aug. 18. Facebook’s Taliban Ban Will Prove Costly for Afghans
Why the tech giant is on the wrong side of history yet again.
