By Sidiqullah Sahel It is believed that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The proverb best fits the current "rulers" of Afghanistan, known as the Taliban or "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan." The group acquired power in the country on 15...
A Research Paper by Irfan Yar Abstract After fighting for nearly two decades and investing an enormous amount of blood and treasure, why could the U.S. and its allies not defeat the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan? While most of the literature attributes the Taliban's success to foreign...
By Sumit Mishra On 27th August 2021, merely twelve days after the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban, a fedayee (suicide bomber) belonging to the Islamic State's local affiliate Islamic State Khorasan (ISK), struck the Kabul International Airport, killing at least 95. This incident resurfaced...
By: Aulia Shifa Hamida President Joe Biden’s defiant speech- in which he conceded that the U.S. presence in Afghanistan was never supposed to be nation-building and to acquaint Afghans with the Western-style democracy- was as a matter of fact at odds with what the erstwhile Senator Biden...
Authors: Bhargava Reddy & Vinay N Bhushan In August, the internationally recognized Afghan government - the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA) - led by President Ashraf Ghani completely collapsed with the capitulation of the Afghan Armed Forces against a marauding Taliban militia. The armed forces and...
Irfan Yar (Originally published on Saturday، August 14، 2021) As the US completes its troops’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban has seized the security vacuum to launch massive assaults. The group has unleashed violent chaos across the country and captured more than two-third of the territory,...