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August 19, 2021
Mullah’s rise charts Taliban’s long road back to power
The Taliban’s top political leader, who made a triumphal return to Afghanistan this week, battled the U.S. and its allies for decades but then signed a landmark peace agreement with the Trump administration.…READ MORE
August 18, 2021
Taliban encounter Afghan cities remade in their absence
Ezanullah, one of thousands of young Taliban fighters from the countryside who rode into Afghanistan’s capital over the weekend, had never seen anything like it.…READ MORE
August 16, 2021
Afghan president was isolated before slipping into exile
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani slipped out of his country Sunday in the same way he had led it in recent years — a lonely and isolated figure.…READ MORE