As of November, the Afghan government could only claim to control or influence 57 percent of Afghanistan's 407 districts, according to US military estimates released by the...
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Report: Militant Groups in Afghanistan Get Rich off Mineral Smuggling
The smuggling of Afghan minerals supplies millions of dollars to armed groups, insurgents and strongmen in the country, an Afghan anti-corruption watchdog reported Wednesday. The...
Rallying Around the White Flag: Taleban Embrace an Assertive Identity
The Taleban appear to have woken up to the importance of organisational symbols and their political meaning. Compared to how little they cared about their image during the 1990s...
Afghanistan: Perceptions
No country can exist in isolation in the age of globalisation. It has to prioritise its own interests and engage accordingly with other countries. Due to its strategic location,...
Return of Afghan Refugees to Afghanistan Surges as Country Copes to Rebuild
This is seriously aggravating the government's capacity to absorb refugees in an already difficult environment of high unemployment and internally displaced people after decades...
What to Watch? Key issues to follow in Afghanistan in 2017
As in most years, the feeling in January 2017 is that this will be another crucial year for Afghanistan. The AAN team has identified several key themes that we think it important...
Afghanistan: The risk of forgetting
As Afghanistan is falling off the global agenda the security situation there is continuing to deteriorate. This presents two key concerns for the international community – that...
Women, Peace, and Security: Afghanistan-Pakistan Women’s Policy Brief
The Pakistan-Afghan Women’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PAWFPD) was established in 2012 to enhance cross-border cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan. This initiative...
Security Sector Reform: Long Overdue in Afghanistan
More than 38 people were killed in twin bombings in Kabul. Another blast in Kandahar claimed at least seven lives and injured over a dozen, including the United Arab Emirates’...
How to Pull Afghanistan Back From The Brink
Nearly 2,400 American service member have died during the war in Afghanistan. Along with so many of its sons and daughters, taxpayers sacrificed almost a $1 trillion to hold the...
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