The counterterrorism challenge in Afghanistan's borderlands [Lawfare] ↳

Lawfare argues that the Trump administration's termination of nearly all of its $1.8 billion in aid to Afghanistan—along with the shuttering of U.S.-funded border reception centers and the elimination of the State Department office overseeing the region—has left some 2.9 million returnees facing extreme poverty and social isolation while erasing early-warning systems along the Pakistan border.