Negotiating with the Taliban to save lives in Afghanistan
When the U.S. pulled up stakes in Afghanistan this past August, the Biden administration didn’t expect the Taliban to seize control of the country so quickly. Twenty years of nation building and an Afghan military crumbled within days. As our team arrived into the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, we weren’t sure what we’d find. It […]
Afghanistan’s ghost soldiers undermined fight against Taliban – ex-official
Mr Payenda, who resigned and left Afghanistan as thAe Islamist group advanced, said records showing that security forces greatly outnumbered the Taliban were incorrect. “The way the accountability was done, you would ask the chief in that province how many people you have and based on that you could calculate salaries and ration expenses and […]