The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the…

I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how to do…

— Najibullah Quraishi

Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could…

— H. R. McMaster

But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not…

— Michael Hastings

By releasing these five top Taliban commanders, the U.S. is demonstrating that it is throwing in the towel in the long struggle against the…

— Jonathan S. Tobin

If the Taliban comes back to power, the impact would be devastating. A country that has made great strides, in terms of development indicators,…

— Chris Alexander

What is common among all of these groups [Taliban, Islamic State etc.] is the intent to destroy. The majority of terrorists who come to…

— Ashraf Ghani

French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach…

— Jay Leno

I believed Afghanistan was always going to be hard. It's the fifth poorest country in the world. And when you fly over it, you…

— Condoleezza Rice

There [in Afghanistan] is also a growing insurgency threat from al-Qaida, the Taliban and other extremist elements, some of which comes from the tribal…

— David Petraeus

If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban…

— Alcee Hastings

America does not hold to the colonial tradition. America came, liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-Qaida, came to an arrangement with Hamid Karzai,…

— Ahmed Rashid

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

I have been to Afghanistan many times, even before the Taliban collapsed. I was fascinated by the country.

— Kabir Khan

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can…

— Arundhati Roy