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Leaving Afghanistan and why America doesn’t win wars
By Amin Saikal
Since World War II, the United States has lost just about every war that it has fought in a developing country. It has epitomised the tragedy of a world power’s incapability in asymmetric conflicts. The latest wa...
Friendly Cooperation with Central Asian States – A Priority Direction of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy
By Eldor Tulyakov and Farrukh Hhakimov
The reforms, openness, transparency, renewal, and changes observed in the domestic policy of Uzbekistan in recent years are also evident in the country’s foreign policy. Uzbekistan, a...
‘What happened next?’ CIA roasted after bragging about arming Afghan Mujahideen, aka the Taliban
The fact that the CIA armed the same Afghan militants who now kill US troops is not a conspiracy theory, and the agency was roasted after it took to Twitter to boast about its covert 1980s arms shipments to jihadists.
In a Twitter po...
What Role Can Turkey Play in the Afghanistan Peace Process?
By Mehmet Fatih Ceylan and Zalmai Nishat
Since Turkey joined NATO in 1952, its relationship with the United States has been of a strategic nature. The 9/11 terror attacks against the United States by Al-Qaida reinforced their coopera...
Afghanistan is America's longest war – it's time for the delusion about it to end
By H. R. McMaster
The war in Afghanistan has not been a 20-year-long war, it has been a one-year war fought 20 times over
Since the end of the Cold War and the lopsided military victory in the Gul...
