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What Lies Beneath the Enduring Stalemate in Afghanistan
Jun 27, 2018 | 08:00 GMT
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Highlights
- The stalemate in Afghanistan endures, with the Afghan government continuing to control the country's urban areas while the Taliban command large areas of the countryside.
- Foreign support, the Afghan government's failures and the Taliban's deep ties within Afghanistan's rural social fabric are central to the persistence of the Afghan insurgency.
- Negotiations are the only real alternative toward ending the conflict in the short term, but myriad obstacles stand in the way.
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