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Taliban’s Return to Power in Afghanistan - Key Factors
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Journal of Contemporary Politics

DOI: 10.53989/jcp.v3i2.32

Year: 2024, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 45-55

Original Article

Taliban’s Return to Power in Afghanistan - Key Factors

Aabid Rahman Rahmany​✉ 1, K R Shani 2

1 Research scholar, Department of Political Science, Mangalore University, Mangala Gangotri, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
2 Professor, Department of Political Science, University College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
 
Corresponding author ✉: [email protected]

Received Date:05 September 2024, Accepted Date:25 November 2024, Published Date:06 December 2024

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Abstract

After two decades of conflict with the Taliban, they seized control of Kabul and proclaimed victory. The failure to establish a robust military force with high morale, significant casualties, and the economic toll of war, along with the inability to cut off the Taliban's financial support, USA's missteps in the conflict, corruption and ethnic biases within the Afghan government, the rise of extralegal governing bodies, shifts in the Taliban's military strategies and domestic policies, support from regional nations under the guise of combating ISIS, and USA's policy of appeasement towards the Taliban, all played pivotal roles in the Taliban's resurgence to power. With the international recognition of the Taliban government and continued global assistance to Afghanistan, the prospect of security and relative peace in the country remains viable.

Keywords

USA, Afghanistan, Taliban, ISIS, International community

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© 2024 Published by Bangalore University. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 

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