Foreign Aid

The Taliban can’t govern in normal times, let alone disaster response.

Targeted awards can free up money where its most needed.

Russia is digging in across the southeast.

As usual, U.S. assistance pays everyone except governments actually providing services to the world’s poor.

Self-delusion and negligence stopped governments and aid agencies from facilitating a genuine and lasting transition to democracy.

Amid Taliban crackdowns, the country continues to be locked out of billions of dollars in crucial international funds, with little resolution in sight.

Hundreds of employees at the World Food Program protest the dominant role of men in responding to world’s humanitarian emergencies.

The United Kingdom should be a critical part of post-Ukraine arrangements.

As violence escalates, the international community must respond urgently to a spiraling humanitarian crisis.

The reserves belong to the Afghan people, not the United States or the Taliban.

Since 2009, the United States has supported the country’s military with funding, weapons, and training.

Continuing to deny aid to Afghanistan is an anti-feminist policy choice.

Humanitarian aid must be linked to an effective independent monitoring system.

Famine and destitution loom, yet more aid could strengthen the Taliban.

International assistance isn’t the political lever many hope it will be.

Donor countries are questioning the merits of a broken system. They must radically reevaluate how they deliver aid—not stop providing it.

A month ago, the United Nations was pulling its staff out of Afghanistan. Now, it’s headed back in to avert a major humanitarian crisis.

After 20 years of building up Afghanistan, can the United States really cut the country off now?

The new Afghan government will likely include ethnicities other than the Taliban’s own. But women are probably out of luck.

If the United States fails to understand its mistakes, it will continue to repeat them.