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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
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A Taliban security personnel holds his gun as he rides zipline on the outskirts of Kabul on July 4, 2024. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)
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Taliban security personnel arrive to destroy a poppy field in Argo district on May 12, 2024. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP via Getty Images)
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Narendra Modi flashes victory sign in New Delhi on June 4, 2024. (Money Sharma/AFP via Getty Images)
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Taliban security forces demonstrate their skills during the ceremony in Guzara district of Herat province on June 22, 2023. (Mohsen Karimi/AFP via Getty Images)
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Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif addresses an audience at the party office of Pakistan Muslim League in Lahore, Pakistan, on February 9, 2024. (Photo by Elke Scholiers/Getty Images)
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Popular Front of India activists stage a protest in Jaipur, India, on December 11, 2020. (Vishal Bhatnagar via Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits the a nickel refinery with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on October 22, 2022, in Perth, Australia. (Richard Wainwright via Getty Images)
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Members of the Taliban gather to commemorate the one year anniversary of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in Kabul on August 21, 2022. (Marcus Yam via Getty Images)
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Bill Drexel
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Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Satoru Nagao
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