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Bitcoin Won’t Save the Afghan People
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Over the past few years, the residents of countries in financial distress have increasingly turned to cryptocurrency. In Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines and Venezuela, crypto ...
By Alex Zerden
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Inflation could spark new global financial crisis, says Russia’s central bank
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“Against this global setting, the CBR [Russian central bank] did the right thing of getting ahead of inflation with hikes,” said Elina Ribakova.Read the full story and more fr...
By Elina Ribakova
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U.S. Wrestles With Taliban Sanctions as Afghan Crisis Looms
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America’s war in Afghanistan is over, but the fight over the Taliban’s finances is only beginning. The fate of billions of dollars of international reserves and foreign aid re...
By Alex Zerden
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The U.S. ground war in Afghanistan is over. Now it’s the Navy’s turn.
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The American military’s involvement in Afghanistan could soon become largely the Navy’s responsibility, an ironic twist for a counterterrorism mission in a landlocked country....
By Becca Wasser
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Short on Money, Legal and Otherwise, the Taliban Face a Crisis
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As Afghans pay surging prices for eggs and flour and stand in long lines at the bank, money changers like Enayatullah and his underground financial lifeline have found themsel...
By Alex Zerden
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China, Russia Look to Outflank U.S. in Afghanistan
As U.S. forces beat a hasty retreat from Afghanistan, surrendering the country to an uncertain future under the Taliban, U.S. President Joe Biden and his top national security...
By Lisa Curtis
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Russia wants to launch little drones off of other drones off of ships
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Russia wants to replace the helicopter scouts on its existing ships with longer-range drones. Announced earlier this week by Russia’s Advanced Research Foundation (an analog t...
By Samuel Bendett
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U.S. presses Pakistan as Afghan crisis spirals, leaked docs show
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The Biden administration is quietly pressing Pakistan to cooperate on fighting terrorist groups such as ISIS-K and Al Qaeda in the wake of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan....
By Lisa Curtis
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Nuclear watchdog sounds warning over restart of North Korean reactor
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The UN’s nuclear watchdog has warned that North Korea appears to have restarted a critical reactor at its biggest nuclear materials complex, raising another security challenge...
By Van Jackson
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North Korea May Have Restarted Nuclear Reactor, UN Watchdog Says
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North Korea may have resumed operations at its plutonium-producing Yongbyon nuclear reactor in the past few months, the United Nations atomic watchdog said, a move that could ...
By Duyeon Kim
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North Korea’s Apparent Plutonium Moves Boost Nuclear Program, Invite U.S. Attention
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North Korea’s apparent resumption of plutonium production bolsters Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal both as a deterrent and a deal-bargaining chip for potential talks with the U.S....
By Duyeon Kim
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Biden’s Rushed Afghan Exit Adds Strains to U.S.-Pakistan Ties
Joe Biden’s hopes of keeping the Afghan Taliban in check will rely heavily on Pakistan, a neighboring nation that has close ties to the militant group but which has often prov...
By Lisa Curtis & Richard Fontaine
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Deaths of 2 Marines in Kabul underscore the evolving roles of women in the military
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Clad in body armor with her hair pulled back in a tight bun, Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee cradled the barefoot Afghan infant in her arm as softly as she could through thick work glo...
By Kyleanne Hunter
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Underestimating the enemy: why Biden’s Afghanistan exit went so badly wrong
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On July 8, Joe Biden stepped into the East Room of the White House to deliver a confident update on the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.The US military had left Bagra...
By Richard Fontaine
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America bombs Islamic State. Once it quits Afghanistan, can it still?
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“TO THOSE WHO carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this,” said President Joe Biden, speaking after a suicide-bombing at Kabul airport kille...
By Lisa Curtis
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In Its Last Days in Kabul, U.S. Turns to Taliban as a Partner
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Twenty years ago, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to get rid of the Taliban. Today, American forces, battered by one of the bloodiest attacks of the war, are relying for their ow...
By Lisa Curtis
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U.S. spy agencies rule out possibility the coronavirus was created as a bioweapon, say origin will stay unknown without China’s help
The U.S. intelligence community has ruled out the possibility that the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 4 million people globally was developed as a bioweapon by Ch...
By David Feith
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Pentagon says threat persists after suicide bombings at Kabul airport
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Pentagon has said that the threat persists after ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the deadly double attack at Kabul airport. An attack in Kabul claimed by Islamic State kille...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden hosts Israel’s new prime minister, with Iran at the top of the agenda
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For the first time in more than a decade, an Israeli prime minister not named Netanyahu is arriving in Washington to visit the president of the United States at the White Hous...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Taliban economy: Will drugs be enough to support the Afghan people?
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That is what experts are saying the Taliban will soon find after the Biden administration’s decision to abandon Afghanistan was followed by a hostile takeover of the nation by...
By Alex Zerden
