![former Taliban fighter wearing new police uniform, Taliban fighters now have new jobs manning checkpoints on the streets and carrying out security patrols in the Kabul city. The Taliban issued new uniforms for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, police force, after months without an official attire. The biggest changes to the gear include shifting the colour to dark brown and replacing the Afghanistan tricoloured republican flag with the Taliban’s white one. Its roll-out started with 20,000 uniforms mainly in the capital Kabul and Kandahar province. Kabul, Afghanistan, July 22, 2022. Photo by Alfred Yaghobzadeh/ABACAPRESS.COM](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2022-08-08T000000Z_1251124477_MT1ABCPR820261012_RTRMADP_3_ABACA-PRESS.jpg?quality=75&w=500)
![former Taliban fighter wearing new police uniform, Taliban fighters now have new jobs manning checkpoints on the streets and carrying out security patrols in the Kabul city. The Taliban issued new uniforms for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, police force, after months without an official attire. The biggest changes to the gear include shifting the colour to dark brown and replacing the Afghanistan tricoloured republican flag with the Taliban’s white one. Its roll-out started with 20,000 uniforms mainly in the capital Kabul and Kandahar province. Kabul, Afghanistan, July 22, 2022. Photo by Alfred Yaghobzadeh/ABACAPRESS.COM](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2022-08-08T000000Z_1251124477_MT1ABCPR820261012_RTRMADP_3_ABACA-PRESS.jpg?quality=75&w=500)
10:00 am EDT - 11:15 am EDT
Past Event
As we mark one year since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, experts look back at the implications of the U.S. withdrawal and, more broadly, at the 20 years of the American war and presence in Afghanistan, and the takeaways that can be gleaned. What are the lessons learned from the U.S. perspective and how will the decades of conflict impact future U.S. policy towards Afghanistan?
On September 12, the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings hosted an event to discuss these questions and examine this important anniversary and its implications for American policy.
Viewers submitted questions by emailing [email protected] or by joining the conversation on Twitter with #AfghanUS.
Moderator
Panelist
Vanda Felbab-Brown
February 3, 2023
Vanda Felbab-Brown
September 13, 2022
Daniel L. Byman
August 5, 2022