The Afghanistan Weekly Reader
Here are the top stories about Afghanistan that we were reading this week. New Gallup Poll Echoes Our Tea Party Survey: 72% of Americans Want Congress to Reduce Afghan Troop Presence Faster Afghanistan...
View ArticleTwo days with Felix Kuehn
Edward Kenney Afghanistan Study Group Felix Kuehn, a Kandahar-based researcher, came to Washington DC last week to discuss the state of the insurgency and the ties between al Qaeda and the Taliban....
View ArticleReconciling the Afghan Analyst Network
Edward Kenney Afghanistan Study Group How confident should we be that the supposed reconciliation talks are going to succeed? Why don’t we check with the folks from the Afghan Analysts Network? Thomas...
View ArticleNotes From Afghanistan Part V: Understanding the Taliban. Are Our Assumptions...
Edward Kenney Afghanistan Study Group Blogger If there is one thing this month in Afghanistan has taught me, it is that our common assumptions about the Afghan conflict are likely to be fundamentally...
View ArticleAfghanistan Weekly Reader: Perspectives on the Peace Process
The announcement that the Taliban will open a political office in Qatar in exchange for the release of Taliban officials from Guantanamo Bay has been alternately hailed as a dramatic breakthough and...
View ArticleAfghanistan Weekly Reader: Insurgent Attacks in Afghan Capital
Last week’s suicide bomb attack on Afghanistan’s intelligence agency was followed by an attack on the headquarters of the Kabul traffic department a few days later. The coordinated assaults have raised...
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