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Taliban’s rapid territorial gains: The future of the post-US Afghanistan

Written by Abdul Basit

The gap and the lack of trust between Afghanistan’s political and military leadership have equally contributed to the Afghan security forces’ poor performance against the Taliban’s ground offensive. It is a well-known fact that several units of the Afghan security forces were not fighting by making arrangements with the Taliban, such as staging fake operations.

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In Brief with Mohammad Mirwais Balkhi, former Afghanistan Minister for Education

In Brief with Mohammad Mirwais Balkhi

The Taliban are certainly waiting for an opportunity to make their move. Nevertheless, I don’t see the Taliban being able to take over and rule Afghanistan regardless of whether the US withdraws. So far, the Afghan government in Kabul has underestimated the ethnic nature of the war.

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