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The Taliban in Afghanistan
The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, twenty years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have cracked down on women's rights and neglected basic services.
Afghanistan's terrorism resurgence: Al-Qaida, ISIS, and beyond
On April 27, 2017, Vanda Felbab-Brown testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on Afghanistan's terrorism resurgence, concluding that improving Afghan governance, not merely beefing up ...
Addressing a Human Rights and Looming Terrorism Crisis in Afghanistan
Meanwhile, terrorist threats that emanate from Afghanistan are intensifying, and the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) constitutes the main international concern, especially since it took responsibility for the March 22, 2024, attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed at least 140 people.
How the Taliban's return made Afghanistan a hub for global jihadis
More than 1,500 people were killed in terrorist attacks in Pakistan in 2023, triple the toll from before the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2020, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal ...
Afghanistan's Terrorism Challenge: The Political Trajectories of al
In 2020, al-Qaeda's status in Afghanistan is subject to debate. Senior leaders of the Trump administration, such as Secretary of State Pompeo, argue that al-Qaeda is a "shadow of its former self." 24 Some scholars of al-Qaeda consider the group to be in decline. In a 2020 essay of The Washington Quarterly, al-Qaeda expert Daniel Byman suggests that the group is unlikely to "resume its ...
Countering a Resurgent Terrorist Threat in Afghanistan
In the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the return of Taliban rule, the United States is now contending with a resurgent terrorist threat. Both al-Qaeda and the self ...
Afghanistan's Security Challenges under the Taliban
The world's deadliest war subsided into an uneasy calm after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021. Violence levels are much lower, but ticking up, as the Taliban combat two insurgencies. Most worrying for outsiders is that the Taliban harbour foreign militants, such as the slain al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Crime and terrorism thriving again in Afghanistan amid economic ruin
10 November 2022 Peace and Security. Two-thirds of Afghans are going hungry, with girls' education subject to "random edicts" of the Taliban, while crime and terrorism are thriving once more buoyed by a large spike in opium production, warned the President of the UN General Assembly on Thursday. Csaba Kőrösi painted a near apocalyptic ...
War in Afghanistan
The document titled "U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan," which was released by the White House in 2023, provides an overview of the primary decisions and obstacles associated with the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan (The White House, 2023, p. 1).It is mentioned that "Two decades after the war had started, America had become bogged down in a war in Afghanistan with unclear ...
PDF The negative effect of Terrorism on the Enjoyment of All human Rights
Government Element in Afghanistan in 2015. Terrorism has negatively effect on national economy. The government's income from tax collection is reduced particularly in in-secured areas. In insecure areas investors cannot invest because of threat to their life and assets. That is why rich investor in Afghanistan cannot move without armed ...
Afghanistan: How can the West stop terror bases?
MI6 talking to the Taliban is not new. What is new is that the entire paradigm of US-backed counter-terrorism in Afghanistan changed at a stroke on the day the Taliban walked into Kabul on August ...
Khorasan: why many Afghanistan citizens are pushing back against the
Khorasan is globally associated with terrorism, but people from Afghanistan are out to challenge that assumption. ... in essays posted on social media and in books often published in Iran.
How the 'Global War on Terror' Failed Afghanistan
How to Fight Terrorism." In it, he warned that defining the U.S. response to 9/11 as a "Global War on Terror" (GWOT) would shape U.S. policies in profoundly negative ways. As he wrote,
US intervention in Afghanistan: Justifying the Unjustifiable?
Although the history of Afghanistan prior to 2001, and earlier US involvement, are important within the wider context (Khalilzad & Byman, 2000), this article assesses specifically the impact of US interventions on Afghanistan.Since 2001, the concept of 'Just War' has been used as a theoretical framework to scrutinise to what extent such external intervention in Afghanistan has adhered to ...
Terrorism as a Global Wave Phenomenon: An Overview
Introduction. Terrorism is violence for political purposes that goes beyond the legal rules established to regulate violence. Consequently, governments have difficulty treating captured terrorists as prisoners of war or criminals, a problem that affects different governments in various ways. 1 Terrorism confined to particular states has been an intermittent feature of history for a very long time.
PDF Afghanistan-Pakistan ties and Future stability in Afghanistan
taliban receives from external sources, principally Pakistan.Afghanistan and Pakistan have a long history of tense relations defined by five recurring drivers: sovereignty concerns, security interests, geopolitical dynam-ics, cross-border ties, and connectivity and trade. together, these dynamics will shape future.
Narco-Jihad: Drug Trafficking and Security in Afghanistan ...
This essay explores the interface of Islamic militancy with opium poppy cultivation and the drug trade in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and draws implications for U.S. national security. It ...
After 9/11, The World Changed. The Fight Against Terrorism Has Too
An American flag at ground zero on the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. In the fall of 2001, Aaron Zebley was a 31-year-old FBI ...
The Terrorism Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again
Although U.S. forces have kept ISIS from controlling large portions of Iraq and Syria, by Kurilla's count, the group still has at least 5,000 fighters. Over the span of just two weeks in early 2024, ISIS conducted 275 attacks—its highest rate in years. Al Qaeda, meanwhile, continues to operate from Afghanistan and Yemen.
47 Questions and Answers on the War in Afghanistan
The War In Afghanistan. 47 Questions and Answers and additional links for further Information. By Michael Albert and Stephen R. Shalom. Oct 14, 2001. In the course of our discussions since the bombing of Afghanistan began, we have encountered certain questions over and over. Here we assemble those questions and provide short answers to each.
Trends in Terrorism: What's on the Horizon in 2024?
The brutal attack on October 7, and Israel's military response, has made the war in Gaza a central component of the terrorist threat landscape heading into 2024. In the United States, FBI director Christopher Wray has warned on numerous occasions ever since about the elevated terrorism threat level, stating before Congress that "We assess ...
NATO
Terrorism is the most direct asymmetric threat to the security of the citizens of NATO countries, and to international stability and prosperity. A persistent global issue that knows no border, nationality or religion, terrorism is a challenge that the international community must tackle together. NATO will continue to fight this threat with determination and in full solidarity. NATO's work ...
Afghanistan and Threats to Human Security
This essay was adapted from a speech delivered in Tokyo on December 15, 2001, at the International Symposium on Human Security: "Human Security and Terrorism - Diversifying Threats under Globalization"—from Afghanistan to the Future of the World.
Pakistan Unveils Counterterrorism Plan, With an Eye to China Ties
The TTP is based in Afghanistan and closely allied with the Afghan Taliban, which have resisted Pakistani pressure to rein in the group. This is where there may be a potential role for Beijing.
The Southern Border, Terrorism Fears and the Arrests of 8 Tajik Men
ISIS-K, or the Islamic State Khorasan Province, was founded in Afghanistan in 2015 by disaffected members of the Pakistani Taliban, who then embraced a more violent version of Islam.
Pakistan Launches New Counterterrorism Operation
Subscribe for ads-free reading. The Pakistani government recently approved a new counterterrorism operation named "Azm-e-Istehkam," meaning Resolve for Stability, to address the challenges of ...
Pakistan calls for decisive action against terrorism in Afghanistan
At the United Nations, Pakistan has called for decisive action against terrorism in Afghanistan. Speaking at UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan, Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Munir Akram highlighted the dangers of allowing impunity for terrorist groups in Afghanistan.
Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the
**Afghanistan. The Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, is travelling to Doha in Qatar this weekend, where, as you know, she will chair the third meeting of Special Envoys on Afghanistan; that will be done on behalf of the Secretary-General. That meeting will take place on Sunday and Monday.
Afghan soil being used for terrorism in Pakistan: Khawaja Asif
Pakistan possessed concrete evidence that its enemies had sanctuaries in Afghanistan and would take counter measures to defend its citizens, he said while speaking in the National Assembly. ... He urged the opposition not to do politicking on terrorism as it was a matter of national security and honouring the blood of martyrs. Khawaja Asif ...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange expected to plead guilty to felony
Julian Assange, the founder of the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks, has reached a tentative deal to plead guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act for his role in obtaining and publishing ...
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The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, twenty years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have cracked down on women's rights and neglected basic services.
On April 27, 2017, Vanda Felbab-Brown testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on Afghanistan's terrorism resurgence, concluding that improving Afghan governance, not merely beefing up ...
Meanwhile, terrorist threats that emanate from Afghanistan are intensifying, and the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) constitutes the main international concern, especially since it took responsibility for the March 22, 2024, attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed at least 140 people.
More than 1,500 people were killed in terrorist attacks in Pakistan in 2023, triple the toll from before the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2020, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal ...
In 2020, al-Qaeda's status in Afghanistan is subject to debate. Senior leaders of the Trump administration, such as Secretary of State Pompeo, argue that al-Qaeda is a "shadow of its former self." 24 Some scholars of al-Qaeda consider the group to be in decline. In a 2020 essay of The Washington Quarterly, al-Qaeda expert Daniel Byman suggests that the group is unlikely to "resume its ...
In the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the return of Taliban rule, the United States is now contending with a resurgent terrorist threat. Both al-Qaeda and the self ...
The world's deadliest war subsided into an uneasy calm after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021. Violence levels are much lower, but ticking up, as the Taliban combat two insurgencies. Most worrying for outsiders is that the Taliban harbour foreign militants, such as the slain al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
10 November 2022 Peace and Security. Two-thirds of Afghans are going hungry, with girls' education subject to "random edicts" of the Taliban, while crime and terrorism are thriving once more buoyed by a large spike in opium production, warned the President of the UN General Assembly on Thursday. Csaba Kőrösi painted a near apocalyptic ...
The document titled "U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan," which was released by the White House in 2023, provides an overview of the primary decisions and obstacles associated with the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan (The White House, 2023, p. 1).It is mentioned that "Two decades after the war had started, America had become bogged down in a war in Afghanistan with unclear ...
Government Element in Afghanistan in 2015. Terrorism has negatively effect on national economy. The government's income from tax collection is reduced particularly in in-secured areas. In insecure areas investors cannot invest because of threat to their life and assets. That is why rich investor in Afghanistan cannot move without armed ...
MI6 talking to the Taliban is not new. What is new is that the entire paradigm of US-backed counter-terrorism in Afghanistan changed at a stroke on the day the Taliban walked into Kabul on August ...
Khorasan is globally associated with terrorism, but people from Afghanistan are out to challenge that assumption. ... in essays posted on social media and in books often published in Iran.
How to Fight Terrorism." In it, he warned that defining the U.S. response to 9/11 as a "Global War on Terror" (GWOT) would shape U.S. policies in profoundly negative ways. As he wrote,
Although the history of Afghanistan prior to 2001, and earlier US involvement, are important within the wider context (Khalilzad & Byman, 2000), this article assesses specifically the impact of US interventions on Afghanistan.Since 2001, the concept of 'Just War' has been used as a theoretical framework to scrutinise to what extent such external intervention in Afghanistan has adhered to ...
Introduction. Terrorism is violence for political purposes that goes beyond the legal rules established to regulate violence. Consequently, governments have difficulty treating captured terrorists as prisoners of war or criminals, a problem that affects different governments in various ways. 1 Terrorism confined to particular states has been an intermittent feature of history for a very long time.
taliban receives from external sources, principally Pakistan.Afghanistan and Pakistan have a long history of tense relations defined by five recurring drivers: sovereignty concerns, security interests, geopolitical dynam-ics, cross-border ties, and connectivity and trade. together, these dynamics will shape future.
This essay explores the interface of Islamic militancy with opium poppy cultivation and the drug trade in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and draws implications for U.S. national security. It ...
An American flag at ground zero on the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. In the fall of 2001, Aaron Zebley was a 31-year-old FBI ...
Although U.S. forces have kept ISIS from controlling large portions of Iraq and Syria, by Kurilla's count, the group still has at least 5,000 fighters. Over the span of just two weeks in early 2024, ISIS conducted 275 attacks—its highest rate in years. Al Qaeda, meanwhile, continues to operate from Afghanistan and Yemen.
The War In Afghanistan. 47 Questions and Answers and additional links for further Information. By Michael Albert and Stephen R. Shalom. Oct 14, 2001. In the course of our discussions since the bombing of Afghanistan began, we have encountered certain questions over and over. Here we assemble those questions and provide short answers to each.
The brutal attack on October 7, and Israel's military response, has made the war in Gaza a central component of the terrorist threat landscape heading into 2024. In the United States, FBI director Christopher Wray has warned on numerous occasions ever since about the elevated terrorism threat level, stating before Congress that "We assess ...
Terrorism is the most direct asymmetric threat to the security of the citizens of NATO countries, and to international stability and prosperity. A persistent global issue that knows no border, nationality or religion, terrorism is a challenge that the international community must tackle together. NATO will continue to fight this threat with determination and in full solidarity. NATO's work ...
This essay was adapted from a speech delivered in Tokyo on December 15, 2001, at the International Symposium on Human Security: "Human Security and Terrorism - Diversifying Threats under Globalization"—from Afghanistan to the Future of the World.
The TTP is based in Afghanistan and closely allied with the Afghan Taliban, which have resisted Pakistani pressure to rein in the group. This is where there may be a potential role for Beijing.
ISIS-K, or the Islamic State Khorasan Province, was founded in Afghanistan in 2015 by disaffected members of the Pakistani Taliban, who then embraced a more violent version of Islam.
Subscribe for ads-free reading. The Pakistani government recently approved a new counterterrorism operation named "Azm-e-Istehkam," meaning Resolve for Stability, to address the challenges of ...
At the United Nations, Pakistan has called for decisive action against terrorism in Afghanistan. Speaking at UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan, Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Munir Akram highlighted the dangers of allowing impunity for terrorist groups in Afghanistan.
**Afghanistan. The Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, is travelling to Doha in Qatar this weekend, where, as you know, she will chair the third meeting of Special Envoys on Afghanistan; that will be done on behalf of the Secretary-General. That meeting will take place on Sunday and Monday.
Pakistan possessed concrete evidence that its enemies had sanctuaries in Afghanistan and would take counter measures to defend its citizens, he said while speaking in the National Assembly. ... He urged the opposition not to do politicking on terrorism as it was a matter of national security and honouring the blood of martyrs. Khawaja Asif ...
Julian Assange, the founder of the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks, has reached a tentative deal to plead guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act for his role in obtaining and publishing ...