Afghanistan Update – January 2024
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Terrorism
“Taliban Rule at 2.5 Years” – CTC Sentinel
A recently published article in the January 2024 CTC Sentinel assesses the past few years of Taliban control of Afghanistan since August 2021. The Taliban’s […]
IG Quarterly Report for Afghanistan (May 2023)
The Lead Inspector General report to the U.S. Congress on Operation Enduring Sentinel (OES) Afghanistan has been published (May 2023). The report provides an update […]
Assessing Hazara Attacks: Are They Genocide?
Who Are the Hazara? The largest ethnic minority in modern Afghanistan is the Hazara, a predominantly Shia community. Some historians believe that Hazara are the […]
Poem: “Afghan Women Rising”
By Sunbul Kamily. It’s been centuries that women are being killed just for wanting to learn, read and for seeking freedom. Girls are born as […]
SIGAR Report – April 2022
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) quarterly report to Congress (April 2022) has been posted online. Although the United States has withdrawn from […]
Terrorist Groups in Afghanistan – CRS Report
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has released a short report about the terrorist groups in Afghanistan. The document outlines the major terrorist groups present in […]
DoD IG Report on Screening of Afghan Evacuees
The Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense has issued a report that details the biometric enrollment, screening, and vetting of the 80,000 or […]
Investigation on Abbey Gate Bombing HKIA August 2021
In the last days of the Kabul non-combatant evacuation operation in August 2021 thousands of Afghans were crowding the entry gates of the Hamid Karzai […]
Socom Commander Says Taliban Aren’t Counterterrorism Partners in Afghanistan
By C. Todd Lopez, DoD News, Nov 22, 2021. Following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of August, the only semblance of government remaining there […]