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Case study 1
Afghans and Talibans
Afghan and Taliban negotiators tentatively reached a deal in which all sides would declare a two-week cease-fire in exchange for President Ashraf Ghani's resignation and the start of talks on setting up a transitional government
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With the Taliban now controlling nearly every population center in the country and Afghanistan's government in a state of collapse,
The agreement in Qatar underscores just how quickly the ground has shifted in Kabul in recent days and how swift and surprising the Taliban takeover has been.
"The Taliban were never negotiating in good faith and there is no reason for them to start now. They have all the power in Afghanistan and clearly don't want to share it."
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The tentative agreement was hammered out between the Taliban and Afghan government negotiators who have been meeting in Doha for months as part of efforts to come up with a peaceful transition of power after former President Donald Trump cut a deal with the Taliban for U.S. troops to withdraw by May. Biden extended that deadline to September
Talibans
Their brutal regime massacred opponents, allied itself with terrorist groups, oppressed women, engaged in violent displays of punishment, and committed cultural atrocities.
The US, Australian and other Western troops invaded to stop the Taliban sheltering Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda terrorist movement, which carried out the attacks.
The Taliban were quickly toppled from power, but the group lived on, waging a brutal 20-year guerilla war against the US, its allies, and the Afghan army.
The Taliban's founder and original leader were Mullah Mohammed Omar, who went into hiding after the US invasion.
The Taliban is currently led by its supreme leader, a man called Hibatullah Akhundzada.
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Afghanistan
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During those 20 years, the US built at least 6 military bases ans trained the afghan army
According to the UN, Afghanistan has the third-largest displaced population in the world.
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Afghan President Ashraf
Ghani says more than 45,000 members of his country’s security forces have been killed since he became leader in 2014
Brown University estimates losses in the Afghan security forces at 69,000. Putting the number of civilians and militants killed at about 51,000 each.
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