Ukraine isn’t fighting a ‘forever war.’ The US shouldn’t forsake it.
If Trump withholds assistance from Ukraine to force President Volodymyr Zelensky toward a cease-fire dictated by Moscow, the ...
Blinken says he has 'no apologies' for ending America's 'longest war in Afghanistan'
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a recent interview that he would make "no apologies" after ending America's ...
U.S. in talks with Taliban for release of Americans held in Afghanistan, source says
The Taliban say they are demanding the release of three people including Muhammad Rahim, the only Afghan national left at Guantánamo Bay.
The great paradox: strategic thinking in an unstrategic world
Much of my 2025 will be devoted to co-authoring a book with my great English friend, David Richards. The title is "The Great ...
In Syria, U.S. Hopes to Avoid Replay of Afghanistan
American officials are wary as they try to persuade the rebels now in control in Syria to govern with an inclusive and ...
Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan offered to resign over chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal
Sullivan also spoke about the disastrous withdrawal in an interview with the Washington Post’s David Ignatius.
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Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation
To convey the impact of the two decades of conflict in Afghanistan itself, Rasmussen recounts the stories of half a dozen or so Afghans who came of age during the U.S. invasion, young men and women ...
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America, Afghanistan and the Price of Self-Delusion
American agencies measured success not ... was not benefiting terrorist organizations. Today most aid to Afghanistan and other war-torn countries flows through United Nations offices that my ...
ISIS increasingly unopposed following US withdrawal from Afghanistan, collapse of Syria
The Islamic State is seeing less resistance in areas of major security concern following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and potential troop drawdown in ...
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One big reason almost nothing went right for the US in Afghanistan
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, published a book, highlighting the bad personnel practices during the Afghanistan war.