At least four months and seventeen days have passed since the complete withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. After 20 years of costly presence, an exit led to the fall of the republic regime in Afghanistan and was replaced by the Emirate. In less than 147 days, Afghanistan is grappling with new – More…
Zalmai Khalilzad, a former US envoy to the Afghan peace talks, told the BBC in an interview that no one expected Afghanistan to fall to the Taliban so quickly. He says he wondered why the Afghan security forces, despite their large numbers and the support they received from the United States, were – More…
At least five months after former Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani fled, he finally broke his silence and spoke to the BBC radio program. Ghani blamed the current Afghanistan crisis on his overconfidence in the United States and Afghanistan’s other international partners and stressed that this was a big mistake. In – More…
