Afghanistan

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during an international conference on the future of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan, organized by Pakistan and the UN Refugee Agency in Islamabad, Pakistan February 17, 2020. REUTERS/Saiyna Bashir

Order from Chaos

Will the Afghan peace process be Pakistan’s road to redemption?

Madiha Afzal

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai attend a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 28, 2014. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/Pool (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS)

Report

A BRI(dge) too far: The unfulfilled promise and limitations of China’s involvement in Afghanistan

Vanda Felbab-Brown

June 2020

October 2004: Sen. John Kerry debates President George W. Bush at Grady Gammage Auditorium on the campus of Arizona State University in the last presidential debate of the 2004 campaign.Debate 114729

National Security

Joe Biden needs to learn an urgent lesson from the 2004 election

Michael E. O’Hanlon

New York Times Sunday, June 14, 2020

The International Criminal Court building is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, January 16, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

Order from Chaos

The danger of Trump’s new sanctions on the International Criminal Court and human rights defenders

William Burke-White

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Reports

Soldiers attached to the 101st Resolute Support Sustainment Brigade, Iowa National Guard and 10th Mountain, 2-14 Infantry Battalion, load onto a Chinook helicopter to head out on a mission in Afghanistan, January 15, 2019. 1st Lt. Verniccia Ford/U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC110D3B25B0

Policy 2020

5,000 Troops for 5 years

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Monday, December 9, 2019

Afghanistan

Afghanistan after Mattis: A revised strategy to focus on counterterrorism and the Afghan Security Forces

Michael E. O’Hanlon

January 2019

U.S. President Trump delivers first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington

State of the Union 2018

Brookings experts on Trump’s first State of the Union

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Afghanistan

President Trump’s Afghanistan policy: Hopes and pitfalls

Vanda Felbab-Brown

September 2017

A U.S. Marine from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company looks out as an evening storm gathers above an outpost near Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, February 22, 2011. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly/File Photo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX2K2IW

Afghanistan

Rightsizing expectations: U.S. policy options for Afghanistan

John R. Allen, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Tanvi Madan, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Bruce Riedel, Tarun Chhabra, and Bruce Jones

July 2017

Blog Posts

NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN.- Taliban fighters attend a surrender ceremony in Jalalabad city, capital of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Feb. 8, 2020. A total of 28 Taliban fighters have given up fighting and surrendered to security forces in the eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, provincial governor Shah Mahmoud Miakhil said.

Order from Chaos

The U.N. exposes the limits of the Trump peace plan with the Taliban

Bruce Riedel

Monday, June 8, 2020

Afghan security forces stand guard outside a hospital which came under attack in Kabul, Afghanistan May 12, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

Order from Chaos

After recent violence, is Afghanistan’s peace process dead?

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Order from Chaos

The Trump administration misplayed the International Criminal Court and Americans may now face justice for crimes in Afghanistan

William Burke-White

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

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Experts

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Multimedia

Sap oozes from poppies after they are scratched, a process to get opium from poppies, in a village outside Balkh province, about 500 km (310 miles) north of Kabul May 6, 2006. The illegal narcotics trade dominates Afghanistan's economy, accounting for 60 percent of its gross domestic product and 87 percent of the world's supply. Heroin and morphine are derived from opium, which comes from poppies. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

Drug Trafficking & Counter-Narcotics Policy

Heroin’s journey during COVID

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jack Meegan-Vickers, Tariq M. Khosa, Ben Crabtree, Jason Eligh, and Simone Haysom

The Impact

Friday, May 22, 2020

Afghanistan

Latest developments in Afghanistan

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Michael Kugelman, Marvin Weinbaum, and Alistair Taylor

Middle East Institute

Friday, March 20, 2020

Undated handout picture of U.S., Taliban and Qatar officials during a meeting for peace talks in Doha, Qatar. Qatari Foreign Ministry/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1623E5FFE0

Order from Chaos

Amid peace talks, what’s next for Afghanistan?

Adam Twardowski

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

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Reports

CANCELED — Webinar: Jihadism at a crossroads

CANCELED – A conversation on national security with General David Petraeus

America’s longest war: The state of affairs in Afghanistan

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Center for Middle East Policy

Director - The Intelligence Project

President, The Brookings Institution