Ashley Jackson

Ashley Jackson is a research associate at the Overseas Development Institute and a Ph.D. candidate at King’s College London.

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Kandahar Police Chief Abdul Raziq poses during a graduation ceremony at a police training center in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on Feb. 19, 2017. (Jawed Tanveer/AFP/Getty Images)

The Taliban Just Won a Key Battle for Afghanistan’s Future
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The scene on the main road of Nawa-i-Barakzai district center in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Aug. 2. The Taliban held the area from October 2016 to July 2017.

The Taliban’s Fight for Hearts and Minds
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SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images

How to Save the Afghan Election
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Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images

What have we learned about stabilization in Afghanistan? Not much.
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