By decreasing sectarian tensions, a changing Taliban and post-revolution Iran, the two anti-American neighbours, have shown signs of goodwill to each other in recent years.
Some racist groups in the US are buoyed by the Taliban’s moment in Afghanistan, seeing it as a model for their own ‘white sharia’.
The Afghan cricket team has received approval for a Test match in Australia, raising some hopes the Taliban will refrain from a blanket ban on all forms of entertainment as it did in the 1990s.
Now in control of Afghanistan, the movement deals with an economic crisis and aid dependency in a country where more than half of people survive on less than a dollar a day.
With the Doha agreement, the Taliban guarantees that Al Qaeda will not use Afghan soil to launch attacks against the US. But it does not mean they will ask the armed group to leave the country, experts say.
Dialogue follows comments from the head of the Taliban’s Political Office in Doha on the group wanting political and economic ties with India.
The arc of imperial hubris, war, defeat and abandonment is not unique to Afghanistan.
Working with NATO allies, the Biden administration must think about its attitude towards the Taliban, its arrangements for the fight against terrorism and how it can help innocent Afghans.
America's longest war took the lives of nearly 2,500 US troops and an estimated 240,000 Afghans, and cost some $2 trillion.
The hasty withdrawal, due to end on August 31, will leave behind thousands of Afghans who worked with western countries and might have qualified for evacuation, as well as millions in need of humanitarian aid.
The Biden administration says it will hunt down the attackers of the deadly Kabul explosions, but the real question is how the Taliban will react.
A Taliban spokesman confirmed the incident, saying a car bomb destined for the airport had been destroyed – and that a possible second strike had hit a nearby house.
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