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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 police are seen at a checkpoint on September 24, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
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The Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Rankin is seen during AUSINDEX 21, a biennial maritime exercise between the Royal Australian Navy and the Indian Navy on September 5, 2021 in Darwin, Australia (Yuri Ramsey/Australian Defence Force/Getty Images)
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A Taliban fighter mans a machine gun mounted on a vehicle near the venue of an open-air pro-Taliban rally on the outskirts of Kabul on October 3, 2021 (Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. Air Force loadmasters and pilots load passengers aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Afghanistan, Aug. 24, 2021 (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen)
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Taliban fighters on a pick-up truck move around a market area, flocked with local Afghan people at the Kote Sangi area of Kabul on August 17, 2021, after Taliban seized control of the capital following the collapse of the Afghan government (Photo by HOSHA
Experts
Adela Raz
Visiting Fellow
