Afghanistan

CIC research associate Said Sabir Ibrahimi was interviewed by The New York Times in an article about recent violence in Afghanistan's capital.

“I think everyone in Kabul feels unsafe, they feel like the government isn’t delivering,” said Ibrahimi. “The Ghani administration is focusing on individuals by giving Saleh the security profile as if it’s a silver bullet.”

Read the full article at The New York Times here.

For War on the Rocks, CIC associate director Barnett Rubin breaks down the history of Iran's relations with Afghanistan and the Taliban.

"Though Iran’s policy toward Afghanistan may lack a foolish consistency, it has placed Iran in what may be its best attainable position in Afghanistan: No one trusts it, but no one wants to antagonize it either," writes Rubin.

Read the full article at War on the Rocks here.

In this Reuters article, CIC associate director Barnett Rubin commented on Pakistan's influence on the Taliban talks with the Afghan government.

""Pakistan has a lot of leverage, short of military options, including allowing and restricting the Taliban's mobility," Barnett Rubin, a senior advisor on Afghanistan and Pakistan under the Obama administration told Reuters."

Read the full article at Reuters here.

CIC's Barnett Rubin was interviewed by TOLOnews about former National Security Advisor John Bolton's new book, and what it reveals about President Trump's policy on Afghanistan.

"The main thing it shows is that President Trump doesn’t know anything about Afghanistan, he doesn’t care about Afghanistan. He just wants to get out of Afghanistan, but he wants to get out of Afghanistan in a way that is good for his reelection and that he doesn’t care about anything else at all," Rubin is quoted saying.