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Afghan Taliban Document

Afghan Taliban

Active since the 1990s, the Afghan Taliban has proven itself capable and resilient. Our articles help to unpack the group’s evolution over time.

March 22, 2021

Have the Taliban Changed?

Thomas Ruttig

March 9, 2021

Securing the Least Bad Outcome: The Options Facing Biden on Afghanistan

Brian Michael Jenkins

January 14, 2021

Afghanistan’s Security Forces Versus the Taliban: A Net Assessment

Jonathan Schroden

November 20, 2020

Afghanistan’s Future Emirate? The Taliban and the Struggle for Afghanistan

Seth G. Jones

April 26, 2018

Challenging the ISK Brand in Afghanistan-Pakistan: Rivalries and Divided Loyalties

Amira Jadoon, Nakissa Jahanbani, Charmaine Willis

January 24, 2018

Red on Red: Analyzing Afghanistan’s Intra-Insurgency Violence

Matthew DuPée

March 10, 2017

The Taliban Stones Commission and the Insurgent Windfall from Illegal Mining

Matthew DuPee

February 22, 2017

A View from the CT Foxhole: General John W. Nicholson, Commander, Resolute Support and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan

Brian Dodwell, Don Rassler

October 25, 2016

Revising the History of al-Qa`ida’s Original Meeting with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Brian Fishman

May 25, 2016

Al-Zawahiri’s Bay`a to Mullah Mansoor: A Bitter Pill but a Bountiful Harvest

Olivier Roy, Tore Hamming

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