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The Afghan conflict (Pashto: دافغانستان جنګونه; Persian: درگیری افغانستان) [10] is a term that refers to the series of events that have kept Afghanistan in a near-continuous state of armed conflict since the 1970s.
This twenty-year armed conflict (2001–2021) is referred to as the War in Afghanistan [94] in order to distinguish it from Afghanistan's various other wars, [95] notably the ongoing Afghan conflict of which it was a part, [96] and the Soviet–Afghan War.
The graveyard of empires is a sobriquet often associated with Afghanistan. It originates from the several historical examples of foreign powers having been unable to achieve military victory in Afghanistan in the modern period, including the British Empire, the Soviet Union and, most recently, the United States. [2] [3]
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Bremmer pointed to a lack of planning as the third reason why U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan went poorly, noting a failure to prepare for worst-case outcomes. "Even if the intelligence is wrong ...
The current turmoil in Afghanistan resulted from the Biden administration's immense failure to execute the US exit, Eurasia Group founder and political scientist Ian Bremmer tells Yahoo Finance in ...
Afghanistan has been unstable for decades, with frequent coups, civil wars, and violent transfers of power. Most recently, the Taliban seized power in 2021 from the Western-backed Islamic Republic , and re-formed the government to implement a far stricter interpretation of Sharia law according to the Hanafi school.
The Islamic State–Taliban conflict is an ongoing insurgency waged by the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (IS-KP) against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. [60] The conflict initially began when both operated as rival insurgent groups in Nangarhar; since the formation of the Taliban's state in 2021, IS-KP members have enacted a campaign of terrorism targeting both civilians and ...