Afghanistan

Given the Taliban’s contacts during their twenty-year insurgency, it should come as little surprise that American weapons are ending up in the hands of the world’s worst rogues’ gallery.

The consensus among historians, journalists, and analysts has long been that President Jimmy Carter’s four-year presidency was a low point in a decent man’s century-long life. In fact, the implicit...

Editor’s Note: This article has been adapted from a Center for the National Interest report entitled “Afghanistan’s Qoshtepa Canal and Water Security in Central Asia,” with some edits made for...

Donald Trump will assume office again amid rising tensions in Ukraine and U.S. troop deployments to Israel. This worries many Trump detractors, and the president knows this. “They said, ‘He...

By 2017, after six years of civil war, Bashar al-Assad’s Syria had settled into a new normal. It wasn’t the placid, pre-Arab Spring normal the Assad family had enjoyed ever...

On December 5, the Center for the National Interest launched its latest report, “Afghanistan’s Qoshtepa Canal and Water Security in Central Asia.” This report argues that efforts by the incoming...

The specter of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 is now hovering over the 2024 presidential campaign. Donald Trump, with some family members of the service members killed by...

Today marks the third anniversary of the last day of U.S. presence in Afghanistan, August 30, 2021, and no matter how much the White House and the media shy away...

President Biden said he ended the war in Afghanistan. In truth he abandoned it. Over 20 years, 800,000 young Americans did their duty to country by serving in Afghanistan. Of those, 20,000 were wounded,...

Last month’s initial public hearing of the Afghanistan War Commission featured several discussions that touched on the role of contractors for both military and development projects during the war. We...

On August 15, 2024, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan celebrated the third anniversary of the takeover of Kabul, ending years of conflict and the failure of twenty years of Western...

President Joe Biden’s abrupt announcement to terminate his presidential re-election campaign upended the U.S. political landscape just a few months before the November election. While foreign policy rarely features prominently...