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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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America bombs Islamic State. Once it quits Afghanistan, can it still?
“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
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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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
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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Can America Still Help Afghanistan? 8 Former Officials on What’s Next.
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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West faces wrenching choice on dealing with Taliban
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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How Biden and Trump caused Afghanistan catastrophe
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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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
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
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’s Afghanistan Exit Raises Questions About His Foreign-Policy Record
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
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'This got bungled': Biden’s two tragic Afghanistan missteps
As NatSec Daily talks to our contacts, we’re hearing two nuanced critiques of President JOE BIDEN and the quickly spiraling situation in Afghanistan. First: While the decision...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden has wanted the U.S. to pull the plug on Afghanistan for years. Doing it has consequences.
Last month, President Biden vowed that his decision to pull American forces out of Afghanistan would never end in a repeat of the infamous helicopter evacuation from the U.S. ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Inside the Biden administration as Afghanistan collapses
Lisa Curtis, a former senior NSC official who sat alongside Khalilzad during the Trump administration's negotiations with the Taliban, called on the Biden administration to "e...
By Lisa Curtis
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Speed of Taliban Advance Surprises Biden Administration, Dismays U.S. Allies
When President Biden this spring announced the decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, his administration expected the Afghan military to defend key cities and perh...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden on Afghanistan: Not my problem
As the Taliban blitz across Afghanistan and U.S. officials scramble to assess just how quickly the government in Kabul could fall, President Joe Biden is recalibrating his mes...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden opens new cyber fight with China
President Biden is putting new pressure on China by publicly attributing the wide-ranging Microsoft Exchange Server cyberattack to hackers affiliated with Beijing. The coordin...
By Lisa Curtis
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'Operation Allies Refuge' to Begin Airlifting Afghans Amid US Withdrawal
The United States this month is to begin airlifting from Afghanistan thousands of those who helped support American forces there during the past 20 years and now fear for thei...
By Lisa Curtis
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It’s Situation Normal for U.S. Diplomats in Kabul, Despite Taliban Gains
A Taliban rampage across Afghanistan is stoking fears that extremists could overrun the capital, Kabul, and force the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy. But inside the building, ...
By Lisa Curtis