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Top Taliban leader flies into Kabul for talks on setting up new Afghan regime
Abdul Ghani Baradar will meet with ‘legal, religious and foreign policy experts’ and notorious militantsAbdul Ghani Baradar, one of the Taliban’s top leaders, arrived in Kabul on Saturday as senior figures began talks on how they will govern Afghanista…
Social platforms wrestle with what to do about the Taliban
With the hasty U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan underway after two decades occupying the country, social media platforms have a complex new set of policy decisions to make. The Taliban has been social-media-savvy for years, but those companies will face new questions as the notoriously brutal, repressive group seeks to present itself as Afghanistan’s legitimate […]
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Afghanistan reports of torture and killing contradict Taliban’s promises
Fighters tortured Hazara men to death, say witnesses, and relative of journalist killedEvidence of Taliban killings, detentions and intimidation is emerging across Afghanistan, ominously contradicting the hardline Islamist group’s promise earlier this …
The west’s nation-building fantasy is to blame for the mess in Afghanistan | Simon Jenkins
British MPs have turned on Boris Johnson – but what tidy end did they expect from this imperialist experiment?Britain’s MPs this week uttered one long howl of anguish over Afghanistan. Their immediate targets were Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, politicia…
UK wrestles with effects of Taliban rule on terror, drugs and aid
Analysis: whether Britain should recognise Afghanistan’s new regime, and how soon, is a fraught question for officialsWith the Taliban now firmly in control of most of Afghanistan, British government figures have been wrestling with what that means for…
Even the crisis in Afghanistan can’t break the spell of Britain’s delusional foreign policy | Owen Jones
As MPs lamented the unfolding disaster in parliament, they showed no sign of learning from itIf historians of the future wish to understand the ignorance and hubris that accompanied the decline of the west’s power, this week’s emergency parliamentary d…
Britain fears US forces may pull out of Kabul airport within days
Exclusive: Whitehall and security sources worry they will not be able to continue emergency evacuationsAfghanistan live news: latest updatesBritain fears US forces may pull out of Kabul international airport within days, putting it at risk of closure a…
Why did we ignore the lessons of history in Afghanistan? We need a public inquiry | Jonathan Steele
The US and Britain’s dogged pursuit of reform and regime change made the return of the Taliban almost inevitableWhen rising British casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq started to raise public doubts 15 years ago, a new mantra began to be heard: Iraq was…