List of South Asia articles
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An Afghan who says he worked as a CIA operative The CIA Secretly Evacuated Most of Its Spies From Afghanistan
The agency has a long history of extracting people from danger zones.
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An Afghan child walks near abandoned military uniforms in Kabul. Now America Must Help the Millions of Afghans It Left Behind
Engaging with a Taliban government will be painful. Washington will have to do it anyway.
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French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Masoud Barzani in Erbil. Macron Uses Biden’s Afghan Retreat to Push ‘Strategic Autonomy’
But doubts remain whether he can cut his own path in the Middle East.
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TOPSHOT - Women walk through a road in Ghazni on June 3, 2021. ‘They Left Us to the Taliban’
Six Afghan women describe their feelings of fear, anger, and betrayal in the wake of America’s departure.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet. China, Russia Look to Outflank U.S. in Afghanistan
Meanwhile, Pakistan urges Washington to pump the breaks on sanctioning the Taliban.
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A convoy of Taliban fighters patrol along a street in Kabul on Sept. 2. Afghanistan Was a Ponzi Scheme Sold to the American Public
When a scam falls apart, it collapses fast.
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Afghan resistance movement and anti-Taliban uprising forces take positions as they patrol on a hilltop. Anti-Taliban Resistance Braces to Fight New Offensive
The last redoubt of resistance against the Taliban is cut off and pleading for foreign assistance.
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Afghan schoolchildren study at a destroyed high school. Biden’s Conundrum: How to Pressure the Taliban Without Hurting Afghans
After 20 years of building up Afghanistan, can the United States really cut the country off now?
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North Vietnamese Army tanks take over the South Vietnamese presidential palace. Stop Comparing Afghanistan’s Fall to South Vietnam’s
Americans are still using the lens of a half century-old conflict.
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Taliban special force fighters stand guard next to a plane. America Isn’t Exceptional Anymore
The United States can no longer claim to be the leader of the free world if it abandons strategic allies and vulnerable civilians.
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Afghans wait for the banks to open in Kabul. U.S. Troop Pullout Sparks New Urgency for Afghan Evacuations
There’s little expectation the Taliban will make it easy to leave.
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U.S. Marines keep watch as unseen Afghan National Army soldiers participate in an improvised explosive device training exercise in Lashkar Gah in the Afghan province of Helmand on Aug. 28, 2017. The CIA Is Better Than the U.S. Military at Creating Foreign Armies
The failure of the Afghan army is a reminder that Pentagon-led security cooperation programs are more expensive and less effective than those led by spies.
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A demonstrator shows Pakistani currency notes contributed by the protestors for holy war against America and to help Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia during an anti-US protest rally of a Sunni extremist group Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) in Islamabad on September 28, 2001. Can the West Make the Taliban Moderate?
The United States has leverage over the new Afghan government. Here’s how to use it.
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Taliban fighters sit on the back of a pickup truck at the airport in Kabul on Aug. 31. The Taliban Can’t Control Afghanistan. That Should Worry the West.
The risk of a terrorist resurgence comes primarily from the Taliban’s Islamic State rivals.
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A U.S. military plane prepares to board evacuees at Kabul’s airport. Last U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan After 20 Years of War
More than a hundred American citizens remain in the Taliban-controlled country.
