Afghanistan

Taliban soldiers stand guard as inmates sit in a prison courtyard while waiting to be released on orders from the Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada at Kandahar Central Prison in Kandahar on July 5, 2022. (Photo by JAVED TANVEER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Taliban soldiers stand guard as inmates sit in a prison courtyard while waiting to be released on orders from the Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada at Kandahar Central Prison in Kandahar on July 5, 2022. (Photo by JAVED TANVEER/AFP via Getty Images)
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luke_coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
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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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Taliban police are seen at a checkpoint on September 24, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
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historian and Arabist and a PhD candidate in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Univeristy of Leuven
Director of Research, Extrac
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