Afghanistan

For Foreign Policy, CIC senior fellow Barnett Rubin wrote about the peace talks in Afghanistan between the Taliban and the country's government, and how they can succeed.

"The process might be different than in 1992, but the result could be similar if not worse. It is urgent to get these negotiations moving," Rubin writes.

Read the full article at Foreign Policy here.

The National interviewed CIC research associate Said Sabir Ibrahimi about the release of inmates as part of the negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban.

“Delays can create some incentives for the released prisoners to rejoin in the absence of an integration programme that can keep them away from the fighting,” Ibrahimi told The National.

Read the full article at The National here.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) quoted CIC's Barnett Rubin about the release of a prisoner under the US-Taliban deal.

"The US Government wants these negotiations to take place," he said. "When you're in a negotiation with your enemy you don't get to dictate what your enemy's conditions are."

Read the full article at ABC here.

CIC's Barnett Rubin was interviewed in this Gandhara article about the demands to release Hajji Bashar Noorzai, a Taliban leader who is incarcerated in a U.S. prison.

"'He is politically important to the Nurzais in Loya Kandahar,' Rubin said of Noorzai’s status as an important tribal figure among the Nurzai, a large Pashtun tribe in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar and adjoining regions collective referred to as Greater Kandahar by Afghans. 'That is a very important constituency for the Taliban,' he added."