Showing posts with label central-asia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label central-asia. Show all posts
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Security Update for Northern Afghanistan

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Attack on German MeS Consulate. A suicide bomber rammed his truck into the German consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan killing a...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

AWN Snippets

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TFBSO - Not All Bad News?  The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has been all over the failures of the Do...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

Insecurity & Human Rights in Central Asia

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Post-Kerry Visit Analysis. The Secretary of State's five-country tour of Central Asia was big news - just the fact that it happened. ...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Fall of Kundez: The Aftermath

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Taliban Announce Withdrawal from Kunduz City.  After many days of fighting the Taliban announced that it was ceasing the fight in the ci...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Courting Central Asia

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The U.S. Department of State's New Silk Road Strategy is long on talk but short on results. The United States is pushing for regional ...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Central Asia and Islam

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The nation of Uzbekistan - located along the northern border of Afghanistan - is confronting the rising threat of Islamic fundamentalism....
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Central Asia and Afghan Drawdown

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Central Asian states are concerned about the spread of ISIS and the possible flow of insurgents northward from the Afghan nation. The situ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Afghanistan's Neighbors Worried about Drugs

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Most experts would agree on the statement that the Western war on drugs in Afghanistan has been a failure. According to the United Nations O...
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Prospects of Regional Integration in Central Asia

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Fatema Z. Sumar , Deputy Assistance Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, recently addressed a gathering at George Washingto...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Central Asia Worries about Afghanistan Threat

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The nations of Central Asia have a good memory - and they remember the turmoil of the last half of the 1990s when the Taliban took power ...
Friday, February 28, 2014

U.S. Kisses Manas Goodbye

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The United States is closing the Manas transit center in Kyrgyzstan . The transit center operated for years and was instrumental in the mo...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Basing U.S. Drones in Central Asia

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With the draw down of ISAF forces continuing in Afghanistan and a strong chance of the "zero option" being implemented due t...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

The Great Game - 2014 Plus

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An article entitled " Karzai's Great Game Gamble " by Gawdat Bahgat and Robert Sharp has been posted on The Small Wars Journal...