Laurel Miller Former Program Director, Asia Please submit all media inquiries to media@crisisgroup.org or call +32 (0) 2 536 00 71. In The News 14 Aug 2021 What we’re seeing is a tsunami of individual decisions to abandon the Afghan government, and all of those individual decisions have added up to a collapse. Washington Post Laurel Miller Former Program Director, Asia 9 Aug 2021 The Taliban [in Afghanistan], I think, would prefer to have legitimacy and financial assistance from the international community. But their number one preference is gaini... AFP Laurel Miller Former Program Director, Asia 29 Jul 2021 [President Biden] judged that, although undesirable, that deterioration of conditions in Afghanistan is tolerable for U.S. national security interests. The Independent Laurel Miller Former Program Director, Asia 26 Jul 2021 There was this idea that if you put a lot of resources into [Afghanistan] and a lot of willpower very quickly, that you can make what we otherwise know are long-term gene... NPR Laurel Miller Former Program Director, Asia 16 Apr 2021 The counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan had for years now become one of prevention, not one of identifying an imminent threat that must be countered. The Wall Street Journal Laurel Miller Former Program Director, Asia 14 Apr 2021 It's a tragedy that the U.S. didn't get serious about trying to stitch together a peace process in Afghanistan much earlier, before the thread ran out. BBC News Laurel Miller Former Program Director, Asia Latest Updates Op-Ed / Asia 02 November 2022 The Unwinnable War: America’s Blind Spots in Afghanistan Podcast / Asia 30 September 2022 The U.S. and the Taliban after the Killing of al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri U.S. Congressional Testimony / Asia 17 November 2021 Afghanistan 2001-2021: U.S. Policy Lessons Learned Q&A / Asia 14 August 2021 Are the Taliban on a Path to Victory? Podcast / Asia 22 July 2021 The Taliban’s Advance in Afghanistan Op-Ed / Asia 15 March 2021 There’s No Shortcut to Peace in Afghanistan Load more