Spiegel, 6 October 2021 A reportage in the leading German news magazine about Taleban displacing Hazara settlers in a Daikundi valley, based on contradictory land tenure documents and their control over the local court.
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NewLines Magazine, 15 September 2021 A fascinating article we had missed then, about the said unit – describing, for example, how it killed Uzbek warlord from Takhar province, Piram Qul, “one of the last dominoes that needed to fall if the insurgents were to sweep across the north and trigger a decisive advance on Kabul.” […]
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NewLines, 9 September 2021 Extremely interesting 2021 article by Syria-born founder and editor-in-chief of New Lines magazine, looking at the re-localisation of militant Islamist groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham that led the toppling of the Assad dictatorship in Syria and the lessons they are taking from the Taleban success in Afghanistan. … jihadism, shaped by […]
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The New Yorker, 6 September 2021 Anand Gopal’s look at one of the hidden sides of th Afghan conflict: In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.
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Washington Post, 4 September 2021 An often-overlooked aspect of Afghanistan’s political economy, ‘back home’ in the States.
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Costs of War Project, 1 September 2021 In case you missed it, too: the figures from Afghanistan & Pakistan (Oct. 2001 – Aug. 2021); Iraq (March 2003 – Aug. 2021); Syria (Sept. 2014 – May 2021); Yemen (Oct. 2002-Aug. 2021) and Other Post-9/11 War Zones by the Brown University/Watson Institute’s Costs of War Project.
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Washington Monthly, 1 September 2021 A reminder that the latest round of Afghan wars did not start at 9/11, 2001. And interesting background on how “hawkish national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski” convinced Carter to start a covert support programme for the mujahedin, “ignoring the advice of his chief foreign policy adviser, Secretary of State Cyrus […]
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The New York Times, 30 August 2021 Another often overlooked major aspect of Afghanistan’s comply crises, highly timely while almost everyone looks at the the Taleban takeover.
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Gandhara, 30 August 2021 Opinion piece by AAN member and former had of the Swedish Afghanistan Committee, Anders Fänge, arguing that the IMF, World Bank and US freezing/blocking of Afghan currency reserves and other financial means as well as some government’s halt of development assistance to Afghanistan was “a recipe for disaster”, particularly for Afghanistan’s […]
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Deutsche Welle, 27 August 2021 Interview with ex-head of Afghan Red Crescent and Doha negotiator Fatema Gailani at the German international public broadcaster.
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New York Times, 27 August 2021 A heart-breaking reportage by Matt Aikins.
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Chatham House, 26 August 2021 … the international community must come together behind the United Nations (UN) to engage with the new administration in Kabul. The priority tasks to focus on are releasing frozen assets, mobilizing humanitarian assistance, refocusing the UN presence in the country, and setting ground rules for future collaboration in all sectors […]
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