South East Asia

Why The Taliban’s Victory Represents A Victory For Long-Term US Geopolitical Interests – OpEd

At first glance, the Taliban’s victory over the Afghan government after the US withdrew its troops from the country represents a humiliating defeat for America and its allies. This, at least, seems to be the position taken by analysts and commentators in coverage of this story in most mainstream US …

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Afghanistan’s Future Is Unclear – OpEd

The Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan in December, 1979 and withdrew, exhausted and demoralized, 10 years later. In Moscow a joke had long circulated: “Why are we still in Afghanistan?” Answer: “We are still looking for the people who invited us.” The same is true for the Americans and NATO who …

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Taliban ve İslam Emirliği’nin yeni dış ilişkileri

Kabil’in düşmesi ile Afganistan bayrakları gönderden indirildi ve yerlerine Taliban’ın İslam Emirliği bayrakları çekildi. Batı ülkeleri büyükelçiliklerini birbiri ardına boşalttı. Çoğu yerli personelini bile tahliye etmeyi başaramadı. Afgan çalışanlarına haber vermeden ülkeden kaçan Batı temsilcilikleri bile oldu. Dünya devletlerinin Kabil oluşacak yeni hükümetle nasıl bir ilişki kuracakları elbette henüz net …

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After Afghanistan: Western militaries and the rise of new strategic threats

“This marks the end of a historic chapter — an intense deployment that has challenged and shaped us,” wrote German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on June 29. The occasion was the homecoming of the last German troops deployed in Afghanistan. Over the past 20 years, around 150,000 German troops served …

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The Taliban Victory – Made In USA

The fall of the democratically elected government in Afghanistan is an American betrayal of democracy. The fall did not begin yesterday – it began with the Doha agreement signed in February 2020. The U.S. and other Western powers were pretending hard to push forward a non-option in Kabul, a power-sharing …

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Taliban Spokesman Mohammad Naeem: It Is Unreasonable To Deny Afghanistan Of Foreign Aid If The Taliban Implements The Shari’a – Islam Is The Faith Of The People

Mohammad Naeem, the Spokesman for the Taliban’s Political Bureau and a member of its negotiations delegation in Qatar referred to a quote by German Foreign Minister stating that Germany would deny Afghanistan of aid if the Taliban implements the Islamic shari’a in the country, saying that this was “unreasonable.” He …

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Billions spent on Afghan army ultimately benefited Taliban

Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely — in some cases without a shot fired — that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment turned out to be the Taliban. They grabbed not only political power but also U.S.-supplied …

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Taliban Says the ‘War is Over in Afghanistan’

The spokesman for the Taliban‘s political office told Al-Jazeera Mubasher TV on Sunday that the war is over in Afghanistan and that the type of rule and the form of regime will be clear soon. Spokesman Mohammad Naeem said that no diplomatic body or any of its headquarters was targeted, …

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Ashraf Ghani and the Fate of Afghanistan

On August 11, 2021, Pakistan’s Prime Minster Imran Khan said, “I tried to persuade the Taliban… three to four months back when they came here…The condition is that as long as [Afghanistan’s President] Ashraf Ghani is there, we [Taliban] are not going to talk to the Afghan government.” Three days …

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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Leaves Country As Taliban Forces Enter Kabul

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Taliban has left Afghanistan, just hours after the insurgency’s forces surrounded the nation’s capital city of Kabul Sunday — all but ensuring the collapse of the national government and a return to rule by the insurgent group for the first time in two decades. Ghani and …

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