Making sense of the Taliban’s counterterrorism assurances
Aug 18, 2023Two years on from the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan’s neighbors are increasingly concerned that their return to power has emboldened terrorist groups and networks, which are using the hospitable environment to regroup, rearm, and recruit substantially. The main question now for Afghanistan’s neighbors in the region, and the international community more broadly, is just how reliable the Taliban’s counterterrorism assurances to other states really are.
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About the Director
Charles Lister
Lister is the author of “The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency” (Oxford University Press, 2016). His research focuses on terrorism and insurgency across the Levant. As a senior consultant to the Syria Track II Dialogue Initiative, he managed nearly three years of intensive face-to-face engagement with the leaderships of over 100 Syrian armed opposition groups.
Countering Terrorism and Extremism Program Experts
Javid Ahmad
Non-Resident Scholar
Charles Lister
Senior Fellow, Director of Syria and Countering Terrorism & Extremism programs
Douglas London
Non-Resident Scholar
Vera Mironova
Non-Resident Scholar
Mick Mulroy
Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Yemen Steering Initiative
Michael K. Nagata
Distinguished Senior Fellow on National Security
Lina Raafat
Non-Resident Scholar
Joseph L. Votel
Distinguished Senior Fellow on National Security
David Wells
Non-Resident Scholar
Recrudescence Project
The Recrudescence Project is a policy-focused initiative being conducted jointly by the Middle East Institute’s (MEI) Countering Terrorism and Extremism Program, the Center for National Security (CNS) at Fordham Law and the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point and launched in order to research the next wave of jihadist terrorism and to devise more effective strategies to prevent or mitigate it.
Advisory Council
The Countering Terrorism & Extremism Program’s Advisory Council is a body of venerable individuals committed to supporting the program’s mission to generate a more locally-rooted understanding of the threats and challenges of today and tomorrow - grasping where they come from and why they come about, and most importantly, how to more effectively and sustainably defeat them.
Saud al-Sarhan
Tricia Bacon
Richard Barrett
Barbara Bodine
Joseph Brandifino
Chris Costa
Edmund Fitton-Brown
Danny Glaser
Karen Greenberg
Jane Marriott
John McLaughlin
Nick Rasmussen
Tom Sanderson
Karin Von Hippel
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