List of Taliban articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Nangarhar, IS Recruits Amidst Af-Pak Border Tensions
IS recruits in Afghanistan’s weak border province, but can they avoid the long-standing mistrust and shifting loyalties that characterize the Af-Pak border?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 NATO Official During Kunduz Strike: ‘I’ll Do My Best, Praying for You All’
A new MSF report goes into harrowing detail about the Oct. 3 U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz.
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20151010_Quilty_MSF_Knz_Afg_029 MSF Hospital Survivors Recount a Night of Horror
With the roar of a plane overhead, doctors and patients huddled in the basement as the hospital went up in flames.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama, Dropping Pledge, to Keep Thousands of Troops in Afghanistan After 2016
Some 5,500 U.S. forces will remain in country to train the Afghan army and fight the Taliban, al Qaeda, and the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Washington and Kabul Stand in the Way of International Probe Into Kunduz Attack
President Obama apologized for the airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, but now he stands in the way of an international probe into whether it was a war crime.
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20151010_Quilty_MSF_Knz_Afg_005 Inside the MSF Hospital in Kunduz
An exclusive first look at the horrific aftermath of the U.S. attack in northern Afghanistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Taliban Are Winning
And the taking of Kunduz was just a dry run for the eventual attack on Kabul.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 On the Road to Kunduz: Follow an FP Contributor’s Journey on Instagram
Kabul-based photographer and FP contributor Andrew Quilty is in Kunduz, Afghanistan this week to report on the fall-out from U.S. airstrikes that hit a hospital there. Follow along on Instagram @foreignpolicymag.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watching Kunduz Collapse From the Sidelines
The fall of Kunduz jeopardizes Pakistan's quest for internal stability.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Regional Roots of Kunduz’s Collapse
If an amalgamation of Taliban, Uzbek, Tajik, and other fighters are allowed to exist in the north, they may win over the support of local populations out of fear and hopelessness.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Kunduz City Falls
Security in Kunduz did not deteriorate overnight. For more than a decade, the NATO and Afghan government strategy in the province has been clumsy and largely ineffective.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In the Fall of Kunduz, Echoes of Iraq
Taliban’s seizure of Afghan city could make it impossible for Obama to pull troops out of Afghanistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Islamic State Could Keep U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
U.S. commanders point to Islamic State threat as justification for keeping force in Afghanistan