#Taliban

Andrew Mines

mines_andrew

Cooperation. Coherence. Compassion. @AmiraJadoon @abdsayedd and I discuss three principles for a smaller and smarter counterterrorism mission in #Afghanistan-#Pakistan region 1/10https://newlinesinstitute.org/afghanistan/smaller-and-smarter

Asfandyar Mir

asfandyarmir

Re violence in Afghanistan: I follow @nytimes's important Afghan war casualty report by @FatmaFaizi and @fahimabed. It offers weekly reports of confirmed significant security incidents with details of the incidents

David Mansfield

mansfieldintinc

1. Been troubled by estimates of Taliban revenues for sometime. Current estimates way in excess of what is economically feasible given potential value added from key commodities produced/traded in Afghanistan

Heath Mayo

HeathMayo

Remember Charlottesville.Remember Access Hollywood.Remember Ukraine.Remember the planned 9/11 Taliban meeting.Remember his praise for Kim Jong Un & Putin.Remember how he applauded Xi’s camps.Remember how he denigrated a Hispanic Artic

William Ruger

WillRuger

I’ve said before that not withdrawing from Afghanistan based on the terms of the deal would be accompanied by calls for an increase in US troop levels. And here is

Jen Brick Murtazashvili

jmurtazashvili

In this piece, @MohammadQadamsh and I show how efforts to build the Afghan state are now hurting people more than they are helping.Twitter is no place for nuance, so please

David Weissman

davidmweissman

.@Transition46, I was the security advisor of the chaplain in my tours of Afghanistan. Tactics insurrectionists use are very similar to those of the Taliban & ISIS. I strongly advise

Afghanistan Observatory

ObsAfghanistan

A thread of threads about #MazariSharifGenocide. Following the capture of Mazar on 8-8-1998, Taliban searched for ethnic Hazara males, who were killed on the spot or arrested. According to US

Andrew Watkins

and_huh_what

US Chairman of Joint Chiefs General Milley took heat this week for describing the war effort in Afghanistan as having attained a "modicum of success."Less commented on was an admission

Mina Al-Lami

Minalami

Thread: 1) #ISIS & prison breaks: In the latest issue of its weekly paper al-Naba, ISIS highlights how the goal of freeing male and female prisoners linked to the group

Muqaddesa Yourish

YourishM

THREAD: Food for thought as we weigh policy options for AFG.1) Progress on many fronts shouldn’t be termed as GAINS, making it negotiable. 20 yrs & the progress is now

Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

If Trump wasn't briefed (a lie) on Putin paying bounties on US troops, it would be history's greatest breakdown of the US intelligence system. A REAL president who wasn't briefed

Cde Setfree Mafukidze🇿🇼

cdesetfree

1. The insurgency in Mozambique Cabo Delgado is one of the most underrated security threats in the SADC region which could affect countries neighboring Mozambique especially Zimbabwe and Malawi.Mozambique’s Insurgency

Fidato

tequieremos

There's alot of confusion when it comes to Afghan Taliban and Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Are they the same? Was it the Afghan Taliban who carried out the APS

Charles Lister

Charles_Lister

Very, very interesting.#HTS & its leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani have just finished hosting @FrontlinePBS's @Martin28Smith in #Idlib for 3 days.How times change -- quite a difference from 2014/15.https://twitter.com/Martin28Smith/sta

Dr. Jonathan Schroden

JJSchroden

I’ve been asked several times over the past couple of days (given the Pentagon shake-ups) whether it would be logistically feasible to get all US troops out of #Afghanistan by

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