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Was Biden handcuffed by Trump’s Taliban deal in Doha?
As President Donald Trump’s administration signed a peace deal with the Taliban in February 2020, he optimistically proclaimed that “we think we’ll be successful in the end.” ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Desperate Afghan Women Wait for U.S. Protection, as Promised
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Even as they cling to hope of being rescued by the American government, Afghan women who worked with the United States over the past 20 years are destroying any hint of that a...
By Lisa Curtis
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Vets see many US failures in Kabul. Military intelligence is just one.
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While the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces this week produced image after image of heartbreak as Afghans clung to cargo planes and women tried to lift babies over airport barri...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Afghan war vets sound off on U.S. withdrawal, Taliban’s return to power
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When the Taliban swept across Afghanistan as if the central government didn't even exist, it was almost like an erasure of history. Twenty years of war cast aside, as if none ...
By Paul Scharre
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Afghanistan's fall renews terrorism fears for US
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The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban has raised fears that terrorist groups capable of threatening the U.S. homeland will thrive anew amid the chaos. U.S. military officials...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Afghanistan collapse into Taliban rule devastates Wisconsin veterans, human rights advocates
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More than 2,300 Americans lost their lives and another 20,000 were wounded in the 20-year, $2 trillion war in Afghanistan. And in just days, the country was taken over by the ...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Can America Still Help Afghanistan? 8 Former Officials on What’s Next.
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With the Taliban’s takeover, many Afghans have expressed deep feelings of betrayal by the United States for leaving Afghanistan behind in a dangerous and uncertain new phase. ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Was the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan inevitable?
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The swift collapse of the Afghan government has reinforced US President Joe Biden’s argument that nothing more could have been done. But was the Taliban’s victory inevitable? ...
By Richard Fontaine
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West faces wrenching choice on dealing with Taliban
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After two decades trying to destroy the Taliban, Western powers face the wrenching decision of whether to deal with the Islamist insurgents who have taken over Afghanistan. Th...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden faces lasting blemish from Afghanistan exit
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President Biden is facing criticism over his administration’s withdrawal from the two-decade conflict in Afghanistan that could leave a lasting blemish on his presidency. Bide...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden’s ‘America’s Back’ Vow Torched as Taliban Storm Kabul
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Just last month President Joe Biden defended his Afghanistan pullout by saying that “the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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How Biden and Trump caused Afghanistan catastrophe
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President Biden's most senior advisers say there were stunned at the way Taliban fighters were able to advance across Afghanistan while government forces melted away or simply...
By Lisa Curtis
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He spent his adult life helping U.S. soldiers. Now, he’s desperately fleeing Afghanistan.
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The voice on the phone from Kandahar Airfield sounded exhausted and resigned, as if not much hope was left. Lt. Col. Mohammad Iqbal Nuristani had managed to get the bulk of hi...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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America's longest war: 20 years of missteps in Afghanistan
America's longest war is nearing its end, with a loss to the enemy it defeated in Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago, shock that the government and military it supported collapse...
By Lisa Curtis
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Afghan Cease-Fire Deal Struck in Doha Collapsed After Ghani Fled
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The weeks leading up to Kabul’s collapse saw a flurry of diplomatic activity by the U.S. and its allies in Qatar aimed at heading off exactly the chaotic scenes in the Afghan ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Kabul's collapse followed string of intel failures, defense officials say
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Military planners sounding the alarm about Afghanistan’s imminent collapse failed to predict the speed with which the Taliban would overrun the country, leaving the Biden admi...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden Holds Afghanistan Line: ‘I’m Clear On My Answer’
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With the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan all but complete, US President Joe Biden took the stage and offered a full-throated defense of his decision to remove American troops ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Swift Taliban takeover leaves US image in tatters
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After two decades in Afghanistan, America's longest war was ending with the image of the United States in tatters. With the swift collapse Sunday of the government in Kabul, t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden's stain: U.S. flees Kabul
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Richard Fontaine, head of the Center for a New American Security and former foreign policy adviser to Sen. John McCain, told Axios: "It's striking that, with 20 years to think...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden’s Afghanistan Exit Raises Questions About His Foreign-Policy Record
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During the 2020 political campaign, President Biden presented himself as a globe-trotting leader who had helmed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, served as President Bar...
By Richard Fontaine & Lisa Curtis
