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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow late on April 29, 2026. (Getty Images)
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
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Crowds fill the tarmac while coalition forces form a security perimeter around the runway at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan, on August 16, 2021. (US Air Force photo by Scott Hardman)
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A US Air Force security forces raven maintains security aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan on August 24, 2021. (US Air Force photo by Donald R. Allen)
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A Pakistani solider involved in an ongoing operation against Taliban fighters in northwest Pakistan on May 22, 2009. (Al Jazeera English via Flickr)
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Ballot boxes for the 2019 Nigerian general elections. (Commonwealth Secretariat via Flickr)
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(Screenshot via Doordarshan/YouTube)
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Taliban fighters stand guard during a military street parade in Maymana, Afghanistan, on January 16, 2022. (Elise Blanchard/AFP via Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via BBC)
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Ahmad Massoud in Panjchir Valley, Afghanistan on September 5, 2019. (Reza/Getty Images)
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Taliban fighters stood guard as people searched for relatives outside a hospital after a suicide attack at an education center in Kabul on Friday. (PHOTO: STR/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES)
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Afghan politician Ahmad Massoud, one of the leaders of the National Resistance Front and son of the famed Mujahideen leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, in Paris, France, on March 22, 2021. (Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images)
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Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri photographed in 2001. (Hamid Mir via Wikimedia Commons http://centralasiaonline.com/en_GB/articles/caii/features/pakistan/main/2011/05/03/feature-02)
Experts
Adela Raz
Visiting Fellow
