The left behind
Aug 20, 2021
4 minutes
By Guardian reporters
The Afghan army collapse
An unequal fight, page 12 →
Biden’s burden
Simon Tisdall, page 15 →
The victor
Baradar profile, page 13 →
‘No future’
Life for women now, page 16
‘This is not Saigon’
Blinken’s defence, page 14 →
A reckless timetable
The Guardian view, page 49 →
A defiant Joe Biden has insisted that he stands “squarely behind” his decision to pull US forces rapidly out of Afghanistan while attempting to shift blame for events unfolding there to his predecessor, Donald Trump, and the unwillingness of Afghan forces to fight the Taliban.
Biden is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency after the stunning fall of Afghanistan last Sunday to the extremist insurgent
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