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Explainer: How dangerous is Afghanistan's Islamic State?

The Islamic State offshoot that Americans blame for a deadly suicide attack outside the Kabul airport coalesced in eastern Afghanistan six years ago, and rapidly grew into one of the more dangerous terror threats globally.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Explainer: How dangerous is Afghanistan's Islamic State?

The Islamic State offshoot that Americans blame for a deadly suicide attack outside the Kabul airport coalesced in eastern Afghanistan six years ago, and rapidly grew into one of the more dangerous terror threats globally.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Explainer: How dangerous is Afghanistan's Islamic State?

The Islamic State offshoot that Americans blame for a deadly suicide attack outside the Kabul airport coalesced in eastern Afghanistan six years ago, and rapidly grew into one of the more dangerous terror threats globally.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Explainer: How dangerous is Afghanistan's Islamic State?

The Islamic State offshoot that Americans blame for a deadly suicide attack outside the Kabul airport coalesced in eastern Afghanistan six years ago, and rapidly grew into one of the more dangerous terror threats globally.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Explainer: How dangerous is Afghanistan's Islamic State?

The Islamic State offshoot that Americans blame for Thursday's deadly suicide attacks outside the Kabul airport coalesced in eastern Afghanistan six years ago, and rapidly grew into one of the more dangerous terror threats globally.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Mullah's rise charts Taliban's long road back to power

The Taliban's top political leader, who made a triumphal return to Afghanistan this week, battled the U.S. and its allies for decades but then signed a landmark peace agreement with the Trump administration.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Mullah's rise charts Taliban's long road back to power

The Taliban's top political leader, who made a triumphal return to Afghanistan this week, battled the U.S. and its allies for decades but then signed a landmark peace agreement with the Trump administration.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Mullah's rise charts Taliban's long road back to power

The Taliban's top political leader, who made a triumphal return to Afghanistan this week, battled the U.S. and its allies for decades but then signed a landmark peace agreement with the Trump administration.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Sweeping conquests test US hopes of more moderate Taliban

COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

US vows to isolate Taliban if they take power by force

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A U.S. peace envoy brought a warning to the Taliban on Tuesday that any government that comes to power through force in Afghanistan won’t be recognized internationally after a series of cities fell to the insurgent group in stunningly quick succession.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Sweeping conquests test US hopes of more moderate Taliban

COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Sweeping conquests test US hopes of more moderate Taliban

COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

US vows to isolate Taliban if they take power by force

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A U.S. peace envoy brought a warning to the Taliban on Tuesday that any government that comes to power through force in Afghanistan won’t be recognized internationally after a series of cities fell to the insurgent group in stunningly quick succession.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Battle gains challenge US hopes of better-behaved Taliban

Taliban conquests in Afghanistan are challenging the Biden administration’s hopes that a desire for international respect — and for international aid and cash — may moderate the fundamentalist militia’s worst behaviors when the U.S. ends its war there.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Battle gains challenge US hopes of better-behaved Taliban

Taliban conquests in Afghanistan are challenging the Biden administration’s hopes that a desire for international respect — and for international aid and cash — may moderate the fundamentalist militia’s worst behaviors when the U.S. ends its war there.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

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