What Kind of Safe Haven Is Afghanistan?

Editor’s Note: With the United States out of Afghanistan, al-Qaeda again enjoys a safe haven there. But not all safe havens are created equal. Georgetown’s Elizabeth Grimm details the different kinds of safe havens that terrorist groups can exploit and explains how governments might respond to limit the danger they pose.

Daniel Byman

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The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has renewed debates about terrorist safe havens, with some commentators arguing that the country is unlikely to return to its 1990s role as a sanctuary and others countering that it may slide back to that past. The fact of the matter is that Afghanistan already is a sanctuary; the more critical question is what type

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