Tag: afghanistan
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Inside the Biden White House as Kabul Fell – The Atlantic
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The Final Days Joe Biden was determined to get out of Afghanistan—no matter the cost. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/10/afghanistan-withdrawal-biden-decision/675116/ Sullivan sometimes felt as if every member of the American elite was simultaneously asking for his help. When he left secure rooms, he would grab his phone and check his personal email accounts, which overflowed with…
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Reporter Says Taliban Forced Her to Publicly Retract Accurate Articles – The New York Times
Reporter Says Taliban Forced Her to Publicly Retract Accurate Articles A veteran war reporter in Afghanistan was told she would go to jail if she didn’t tweet an apology for her reporting. She has since safely left the country. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/business/media/taliban-reporter-lynne-odonnell.html In one of the coerced tweets, posted on Tuesday, Ms. O’Donnell wrote: “l apologize…
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The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible. – The New York Times
The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible. U.S. service members and veterans have long insisted that the military’s garbage-disposal fires in war zones made them ill. Why were their claims stonewalled for so long? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/magazine/military-burn-pits.html A burn pit is exactly what it sounds like: A hole is dug in the…
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Afghanistan Has Become the World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis | The New Yorker
Afghanistan Has Become the World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis Four months after the Biden Administration withdrew U.S. troops, more than twenty million Afghans are on the brink of famine. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/afghanistan-has-become-the-worlds-largest-humanitarian-crisis The face of a commander from the southern city of Kandahar was so badly burned that his nose was a smooth, flat…
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The Secret History of the U.S. Diplomatic Failure in Afghanistan
The Secret History of the U.S. Diplomatic Failure in Afghanistan A trove of unreleased documents reveals a dispiriting record of misjudgment, hubris, and delusion that led to the fall of the Western-backed government. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/20/the-secret-history-of-the-us-diplomatic-failure-in-afghanistan The debates and decisions in Washington, Kabul, and Doha that preceded the Islamic Republic’s fall took place…
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As a Secret Unit Pounded ISIS, Civilian Deaths Mounted – The New York Times
Civilian Deaths Mounted as Secret Unit Pounded ISIS (Published 2021) An American strike cell alarmed its partners as it raced to defeat the enemy. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/12/us/civilian-deaths-war-isis.html As bad strikes mounted, the four military officials said, Talon Anvil’s partners sounded the alarm. Pilots over Syria at times refused to drop bombs because Talon Anvil wanted to…
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Inside the Fall of Kabul: An On-the-Ground Account – The New York Times
Inside the Fall of Kabul Against all predictions, the Taliban took the Afghan capital in a matter of hours. This is the story of why and what came after, by a reporter and photographer who witnessed it all. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/magazine/fall-of-kabul-afghanistan.html After flying for more than an hour, the three presidential helicopters arrived at the Uzbekistan…
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Who Gets to Escape the Taliban | The New Yorker
Who Gets to Escape the Taliban The chaotic American withdrawal forced individual soldiers, aid workers, and journalists to decide which Afghans would be saved. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/who-gets-to-escape-the-taliban What became apparent at the gates of the Baron is that there was no American strategy for leaving Afghanistan—none that considered the future of the Afghans…
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The Other Afghan Women | The New Yorker
The Other Afghan Women In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women Dado went even further. In March, 2003, U.S. soldiers visited Sangin’s governor—Dado’s brother—to discuss refurbishing a school and a health clinic. Upon leaving, their convoy came under…
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Biden’s Chaotic Withdrawal from Afghanistan Is Complete | The New Yorker
Biden’s Chaotic Withdrawal from Afghanistan Is Complete The U.S. has extricated its military from a two-decade-long conflict, but the country, and tens of thousands of Afghan allies, have been abandoned to the Taliban. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/bidens-chaotic-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-is-complete A high-school teacher at an American school in Taiwan tried to fly out seven young leaders and…
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The Veterans Struggling to Save Afghan Allies | The New Yorker
The Veterans Struggling to Save Afghan Allies For many who served in Afghanistan, the flawed evacuation efforts have brought feelings of shame and betrayal. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-veterans-struggling-to-save-afghan-allies “Do you understand what it’s like to have people send you messages saying, ‘You promised me you’d get me out,’ ‘I’m being hunted,’ ‘You can’t get…
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Can Afghanistan’s Leading Broadcaster Survive the Taliban? – The New York Times
Can Afghanistan’s Leading Broadcaster Survive the Taliban? (Published 2021) Tolo came to prominence with hard-hitting news, raucous reality shows and lurid Turkish soap operas. Now there are ominous signs that a violent media clampdown is underway. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/world/asia/afghanistan-tolo-taliban.html But journalists and human rights advocates say there are ominous signs that a violent media clampdown is…
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American Purpose After the Fall of Kabul | The New Yorker
American Purpose After the Fall of Kabul Soldiers were told that we were champions of the rights of mankind. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/american-purpose-after-the-fall-of-kabul The next time that feeling comes around, remember what it wrought. 9/11 unified America. It overcame partisan divides, bound us together, and gave us the sense of common purpose so lacking…
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As Told To: The Flight From Kabul | The New Yorker
As Told To: The Flight From Kabul Last week, the Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi hastily packed a few things, made it onto a flight, and watched from the airplane window as her city got smaller and smaller. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/30/as-told-to-the-flight-from-kabul I was running, and in the middle of my running some people made…
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The Enemy Is Us | Conscientious Photography Magazine
The Enemy Is Us via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/enemy-is-us/ “The single biggest mistake that a photographer can make,” Philip Jones Griffiths once said, “is to believe in the profession, to believe in magazines and newspapers. When that happens, you have already failed. One must work first and foremost to satisfy oneself.” (quoted from: Interview with…
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Opinion | Afghanistan’s Fall, Seen By a Veteran Who Fought There – The New York Times
Opinion | I Was a Marine in Afghanistan. We Sacrificed Lives for a Lie. (Published 2021) Those of us who fought this war must now wonder: How could we have given the best parts of our lives to such a lie? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/opinion/afghanistan-war-veteran.html But the speed of the Taliban’s advance makes clear that this outcome…
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Does the Great Retreat from Afghanistan Mark the End of the American Era? | The New Yorker
Does the Great Retreat from Afghanistan Mark the End of the American Era? It’s a dishonorable end that weakens U.S. standing in the world, perhaps irrevocably. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/does-the-great-retreat-from-afghanistan-mark-the-end-of-the-american-era On Monday, August 9th, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul posed a question to its four hundred thousand followers: “This #PeaceMonday, we want to hear…
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The Return of the Taliban | The New Yorker
The Return of the Taliban Their comeback has taken twenty years, but it is a classic example of a successful guerrilla war of attrition. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-return-of-the-taliban In April, President Joe Biden announced his intention to carry on with the withdrawal, and pull out forces by September 11th. However much he says that…
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The Taliban fly their flag in central Kunduz as exhausted Afghan troops regroup. – The New York Times
The Taliban fly their flag in Kunduz as exhausted Afghan troops regroup. (Published 2021) The rapid fall of important Afghan cities comes as insurgent fighters have pressed their offensive all around the country, dividing Afghan forces as U.S. troops depart. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/08/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-kunduz.html The Taliban seized two Afghan provincial capitals on Sunday, including the strategically crucial…
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Fear and Misery in an Afghan City Where Taliban Stalk the Streets – The New York Times
Selling Fruit Where the Taliban Stalk the Streets (Published 2021) For weeks, the northern city of Kunduz has suffered daily street battles. Times journalists were there to document a cat-and-mouse war for control. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/world/asia/afghanistan-kunduz-taliban.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=World%20News The Afghan way of war in 2021 comes down to this: a watermelon vendor on a sweltering city street, a…