United States must be a part of peace negotiations in Afghanistan.
Last week saw several reports, including in the Washington Post and the Guardian, claiming renewed or invigorated contacts between the Karzai administration and the Taliban. This has been reported on...
View ArticleThree Baffling News Developments from Afghanistan
If you think you understand Afghanistan, try to make a coherent narrative out of the following three news stories reported this week: 1. The New York Times reports that the U.S. flew Taliban...
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Iran in Afghanistan Today’s New York Times has a front page story on Iran’s increasingly cozy relationship with the Karzai government. The U.S. should not be surprised that Iran is trying to influence...
View Article11/12/2010 Afghanistan Update: No Games in December, Let’s Have a Real Review
Edward Kenney Afghanistan Study Group Blogger Afghanistan Update 11/12/10: Council on Foreign Relations Releases Af-Pak Review The Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) has just published a policy paper...
View ArticleMore on the Sangin Deal
In a recent post, Afghanistan Study Group Director Matt Hoh gave a relatively optimistic take on the recent peace deal in Sangin province and highlighted the importance of reaching these types of deals...
View ArticleReconciling the Afghan Analyst Network
Edward Kenney Afghanistan Study Group How confident should we be that the supposed reconciliation talks are going to succeed? Why don’t we check with the folks from the Afghan Analysts Network? Thomas...
View ArticleNavigating the Afghanistan Peace Process: It’s Going to be a Bumpy Road
Mary Kaszynski Afghanistan Study Group Blogger “I don’t know any peace process that hasn’t been a bumpy process,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during her trip to the Middle East last week....
View ArticleThe GOP Candidates on the Afghanistan War: “I can’t, …. I can’t, sorry. Oops.”
Mary Kaszynski Afghanistan Study Group Blogger Ninety-seven thousand (97,000) US troops are currently stationed in Afghanistan, but you might never have known that from Saturday’s debate. The...
View ArticleAfghanistan Weekly Reader: Perspectives on the Peace Process
The announcement that the Taliban will open a political office in Qatar in exchange for the release of Taliban officials from Guantanamo Bay has been alternately hailed as a dramatic breakthough and...
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