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Tuesday, February 24, 2026
TopicAfghanistan Papers

Topic: Afghanistan Papers

The Afghanistan Papers refer to a trove of confidential US government documents The Washington Post gained access to following a three-year battle under the Freedom of Information Act.

The 2,000-page document includes interviews conducted by government-appointed interviewers who spoke to Army generals, diplomats, aid workers as well as Afghan government officials. All point to one fact — that America hid the fact that the war in Afghanistan had become “unwinnable”.

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CIA gave cash to Afghan warlords, politicians, religious leaders, says The Washington Post report. Situation was such that Afghans started seeing Taliban as “brutal but efficient”.

18 years, 2,300 deaths & $978 bn later, why America’s Afghan war is being called a failure

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The figures were revealed in an investigative report, titled The Afghanistan Papers, published by The Washington Post Monday.

Treating Pakistan as a friend was a critical error: US officials in Afghanistan Papers

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In the US government documents on the Afghanistan war published by The Washington Post, officials say Pakistan played a ‘double game’.

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