Author: Thomas Ruttig

Thomas Ruttig is the co-director and co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network

Conflict Portrait: Afghanistan

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The armed conflict between the Afghan government, along with its international allies, and armed radical Islamist insurgents intensified after 2014. At the end of that year, the mandate of the NATO-led ISAF combat mission expired, and the responsibility for security was officially handed over to the Afghan authorities. ISAF was replaced by a far smaller… Read more »