Afghanistan Can’t Handle Another Refugee Crisis
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Afghanistan grapples with a refugee crisis as Iran rapidly expels tens of thousands of people, a Bangladeshi Air Force plane ...
Tag: Afghanistan
Moscow’s Recognition of the Taliban Will Backfire
Nearly four years after the Taliban’s reconquest of Afghanistan, Moscow has formally recognized the Taliban regime as the legitimate government of Afghanistan—a move that has been welcomed by China. Moscow’s ...
Russia’s Recognition Could Bolster Taliban Regime
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Russia becomes the first foreign government to formally recognize the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar ...
How to Lose Friends and Alienate Partners
When the Taliban swept back into power in August 2021, Afghanistan’s elite special operations forces were among the last holdouts. These were the final defenders, holding ground against daily Taliban ...
Report: Iranian Official Says Tehran Deporting 8,000 Afghans a Day
An Iranian border governor revealed this week, Afghan news outlets relayed, that Iran has dramatically increased the rate of mass deportations of Afghans, resulting in over 8,000 repatriations a day. ...
Biden admin evacuated 55 Afghans on terror watchlist to US during botched withdrawal: DOJ watchdog
US officials encountered 55 Afghan evacuees on the terrorist watchlist after the Biden administration’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from the Middle Eastern country, according to a Justice Department inspector general report. ...
Why the West Embraced Syria and Ditched Afghanistan
If you’re a pragmatic Taliban official in Kabul, the West’s warm embrace of Syria’s new leader must be jarring. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa—once affiliated with an offshoot of al Qaeda—has ...
Afghan refugee who worked alongside US troops killed over a parking spot in Texas: cops
He fought for freedom and died over a parking spot. The father of two infant daughters and an Afghan refugee who supported American special forces in his native country was ...
Russia Removes Taliban from Terrorism List
The Russian Supreme Court removed the Taliban junta in Afghanistan from its terrorism watch list on Thursday, paving the way for President Vladimir Putin to cooperate more extensively with the ...
Exclusive — Inside Trump’s Jihadist Elimination Unit at the White House: Senior Director Gorka Details How POTUS ‘Has Done a 180 on Counterterrorism Policy’ Compared with Biden
WASHINGTON, DC — Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the Senior Director of Counterterrorism for the National Security Council (NSC) and a Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump, told Breitbart News in a ...
