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International leaders are struggling to manage a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan; they are torn between their commitment to alleviate Afghans’ suffering and their reluctance to legitimize a Taliban government that violates its people’s basic rights. Helping Afghans but not their new “de facto authorities” is a difficult balance for a diverse group of international actors with often divergent long-term interests.
Legitimizing the Taliban’s rule is not the solution to Afghanistan’s current and future problems.
A gathering of regional foreign ministers to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan this week brought little in the way of new initiatives but provided a forum for several of Kabul’s neighbors to blame the country’s economic plight on the United States and its Western allies. The United States “was described as an irresponsible actor,…
WASHINGTON - A gathering of regional foreign ministers to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan this week brought little in the way of new initiatives
Russia, China, Iran blame America for Afghanistan’s plight and say it should pay for its reconstruction