Can the Taliban Avoid Fracturing Over the Qatar Peace Talks?
EXCLUSIVE: Afghan insurgent leaders struggle to keep their men aboard for negotiations with the U.S. Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau on unrest in the ranks.
The Afghan Taliban’s highest leaders sent out an urgent order a few weeks ago. The group’s shadow governors—the men in charge of administrative affairs at the provincial level—were to assemble their top commanders and officers immediately at designated towns and cities along or near the Afghan-Pakistan border for briefings on...
