CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts referenced: "Roberts thought the Taliban, which has been attempting to present itself as more moderate and responsible than the regime overthrown by the U.S. after 9/11, made a surprising blunder by putting the...

"Retired senior British diplomat Ivor Roberts told VOA that assigning members of the Haqqani network to oversee the security of Kabul is akin to the 'fox being put in charge of a chicken coop.' Roberts, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism...

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "'When the president said we're going to hunt them down and make them pay my initial reaction was: Spot on,' said Nathan Sales, the former ambassador at large for counterterrorism under Trump...

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales interviewed: 'It’s simply unacceptable that the US or any civilised nation would trust the Taliban to provide security,' Ambassador Nathan Sales, former special envoy to the global coalition to defeat...

CEP Research Analyst Riza Kumar interviewed: "They are definitely trying to push an ideology, but they're also promoting an alternative Islamist state. So they're compromising the Taliban's monopoly."

"Senior adviser at Counter Extremism Project, Ivor Roberts, said Al-Qaeda is 'deeply embedded' with the Taliban. 'I don’t think they will ever cut ties with Al-Qaeda,' Roberts, a retired British diplomat, noted."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed on the Taliban and inability to secure the perimeter around the airport in Kabul.

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed on Swiss national broadcaster SRF 1 “10 vor 10” to discuss ISIS-Khorasan Province and the situation in Afghanistan.

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales interviewed: "Our goal has to be to protect the Afghans who put their lives on the line for the U.S. military during the war. These are people who believe in America, who believe in America's values."

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "'ISIS-Khorasan and the Taliban are ... sworn enemies ... but that doesn’t mean that the Taliban has the wherewithal to keep ISIS under control,' says Nathan Sales, former State Department...