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Read Guardian panelists Fatima Bhutto , Stephen Wertheim, Moira Donegan, Haroun Dada, Shadi Hamid and David Vine’s insight on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and its aftermath:
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Afghan journalist Ramin Rahman, 27, left on a US military plane at Hamid Karzai international airport. He writes:
The day the Taliban took over started with a call from my friend in Germany. He told me to get to the airport because there was potentially going to be a German embassy evacuation plane leaving that day. He put my name on their evacuation list because I had worked for German media, and I had been in the process of applying for a visa for the past year.
Related: ‘We kept on hearing gunshots’: my chaotic escape from Kabul’s airport