Who’s fair game under the Taliban?

Ullekh NP

While the power elite are safe abroad, common folk of Afghanistan hope against hope that their worst fears don’t come true

MJ Akbar

The Afghan War is over ideology, not geography

James Astill

America has squandered $2 trillion and thousands of lives trying to rebuild Afghanistan. Yet it never seemed to understand it

TP Sreenivasan

Close encounters from the Soviet occupation to the rise of the Taliban

Ullekh NP

In conversation with C Christine Fair

Swapan Dasgupta

And a mood of understandable triumphalism in the Taliban

TCA Raghavan

The optics of America’s pullout from an unwinnable war in Afghanistan

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