Why Saudi Arabia Doesn’t Want Iran’s Regime to Fall
Riyadh seeks to leverage ongoing anti-government protests to extract geopolitical concessions from Tehran—not effect regime change.
The World Food Program seems poised to carry on, driving NGOs to call it quits on aid.
The U.S. and U.N. are halting aid as the Taliban ratchet up their atrocities.
Misogyny gets headlines. The pillaging of international aid money goes unnoticed.
The Afghan Adjustment Act didn’t make it into the final major spending bill, leaving refugees in limbo.
Fights with neighbors, terrorism attacks on the group’s few patrons, and concerns over Taliban defections darken Afghanistan’s future.
It’s not recognition yet—just resignation.
Unfreezing billions of dollars while huge revenues flow to Kabul risks legitimizing an extremist regime.
They are, increasingly, the only financial link that connects the country to the rest of the world.
More drugs and higher prices a year after the Taliban takeover.
Abandoned special forces veterans are getting job offers for a very different kind of battlefield.
New Islamic State rhetoric targets Chinese imperialism.
Cramped conditions and snail-paced bureaucracy add to the misery of people forced to flee the Taliban’s takeover.
NATO’s last man in Kabul helped facilitate the airlift and had a front-row seat to the Taliban takeover of the capital.
But first they must present a united front to win the support they need to dislodge the Taliban.
But it’s just going to go in Taliban pockets, critics say.
Al Qaeda once again has a safe haven in Afghanistan, endangering Americans.
Two recent books chronicle how the United States turned its back on Afghanistan and pitched the country into chaos.
Banning travel, at last, will send a message that brutality and support for terrorists are not acceptable.