Afghans Have Been Left at the Mercy of the Ruthless Taliban
Afghans have been left with a group that has a reputation for human rights abuse.
Afghans have been left with a group that has a reputation for human rights abuse.
What can the US and the European Union learn from the events in Afghanistan?
The US must not keep bombing and killing civilians to provide cover for the Afghan government to avoid difficult but necessary compromises at the negotiating table.
For any peace deal to work in Afghanistan, certain conditions need to be addressed. A failure to do so would cause a ripple effect globally.
Numerous sticking points remain that could easily derail the Afghan peace talks.
The Qatar peace talks done wrong could risk nullifying progress made in Afghanistan over the past 18 years and set a dangerous international precedent, challenging the norm of state sovereignty’s inviolability.