Afghanistan
Afghanistan
![Crowds fill the tarmac while coalition forces form a security perimeter around the runway at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan, Aug. 16, 2021. Once airborne, aircrew assigned to the U-28A Draco provided surveillance and reconnaissance of the ground situation at the airport during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo courtesy of Lt. Col. Scott Hardman)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.13.2023%20Haqqani%20JBS.jpg?h=08b866d1&itok=qBJokAoB)
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Crowds fill the tarmac while coalition forces form a security perimeter around the runway at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan, on August 16, 2021. (US Air Force photo by Scott Hardman)
![A U.S. Air Force security forces raven, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, maintains security aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Afghanistan, Aug. 24, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.10.2023%20Coffey%20Arab%20News.jpg?h=58c8a5e7&itok=otnubrN3)
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A US Air Force security forces raven maintains security aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan on August 24, 2021. (US Air Force photo by Donald R. Allen)
Commentary
![A Pakistani solider involved in an ongoing operation against Taliban fighters in northwest Pakistan on May 22, 2009. (Al Jazeera English via Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.07.2023%20Haqqani%20John%20Batchelor.jpg?h=adbb760b&itok=BzT73fhG)
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A Pakistani solider involved in an ongoing operation against Taliban fighters in northwest Pakistan on May 22, 2009. (Al Jazeera English via Flickr)
![The Commonwealth Observer Group, chaired by the former President of the United Republic of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete, witnessed the general elections in Nigeria.](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/02.13.2023%20Barnett%20New%20Lines.jpg?h=926e5cfc&itok=Eah6rq1D)
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Ballot boxes for the 2019 Nigerian general elections. (Commonwealth Secretariat via Flickr)
![Analysis of the causes and consequences of escalating jihadi attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and geostrategic options for India. Anchored by Dr. Sreeram Chaulia and featuring expert commentary by Dr.Aparna Pande, Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute, USA](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/02.05.2023%20Pande%20Indian%20Diplomacy.jpg?h=fbba1689&itok=-GDw22dA)
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(Screenshot via Doordarshan/YouTube)
![taliban NRF Ahmad Massoud](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-12/12.7%20Coffey%20Event.jpg?h=72eefa0f&itok=SOE3zZUC)
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Taliban fighters stand guard during a military street parade in Maymana, Afghanistan, on January 16, 2022. (Elise Blanchard/AFP via Getty Images)
Commentary
![Husain Haqqani BBC Pakistan Taliban](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-12/12.20%20Haqqani%20BBC.jpg?h=7847eb8b&itok=OfIo3GYf)
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(Screenshot via BBC)
In the Media
![Ahmad Massoud in Panjchir Valley, Afghanistan on September 5, 2019. (Reza/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-12/12.4%20Coffey.jpg?h=9eb0d413&itok=CaHmF9ZW)
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Ahmad Massoud in Panjchir Valley, Afghanistan on September 5, 2019. (Reza/Getty Images)
![afghanistan_bombing](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-10/afghanistan%20bombing.jpg?h=2d828ae9&itok=bLXI1qI-)
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Taliban fighters stood guard as people searched for relatives outside a hospital after a suicide attack at an education center in Kabul on Friday. (PHOTO: STR/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES)
In the Media
![9.25 Coffey](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-09/9.25%20Coffey.jpg?h=47c441df&itok=HLpFpk2t)
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Afghan politician Ahmad Massoud, one of the leaders of the National Resistance Front and son of the famed Mujahideen leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, in Paris, France, on March 22, 2021. (Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images)
Commentary
![Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-10/Hamid_Mir_interviewing_Osama_bin_Laden_and_Ayman_al-Zawahiri_2001.jpg?h=c23c9aca&itok=co4zDM1n)
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Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri photographed in 2001. (Hamid Mir via Wikimedia Commons http://centralasiaonline.com/en_GB/articles/caii/features/pakistan/main/2011/05/03/feature-02)
In the Media