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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
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Taliban fighters by Lake Qargha in a western suburb of Kabul City on September 17, 2021. (Kaveh Kazemi via Getty Images)
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Qin Gang meets with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 6, 2023. (Jiang Chao/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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John F. Kirby holds a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2022. (DoD photo by James K. Lee)
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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)
Experts
Adela Raz
Visiting Fellow
