A NEW CHAPTER IN AFGHANISTAN
Apr 24, 2021
3 minutes
Illustration by SIDDHANT JUMDE
In October 2001, when US Special Forces and CIA operatives went into Afghanistan with the express objective of removing the Taliban and dismantling Al Qaeda, could anyone have predicted that 20 years later the US would still be militarily engaged and debating its choices?
It is this stark realisation that made President Joe Biden announce on April 14 that “it is time to end the forever war in Afghanistan”, and that all US soldiers
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