Afghanistan Withdrawal: the best of The New Statesman’s articles
Read all our reporting and analysis of the Taliban’s takeover and the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Read all our reporting and analysis of the Taliban’s takeover and the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
ByConservatives are stuck with a leader incapable of taking important decisions and who is held in contempt by his Western peers.
ByVoters in the US and Europe may have had enough of “forever wars”, but there will be no escaping the…
ByNearly 70,000 Afghan soldiers and police, and more than 47,000 civilians died in the 20-year conflict.
ByLiving in Afghanistan’s capital the week before the Taliban captured the city, I found a reality at odds with US…
ByA dangerous and empty rhetoric of moderation has helped jihadist groups across the world endure.
ByJoe Biden is following Barack Obama and Donald Trump in seeking to detach his country from Europe.
ByAn unrepentant US President blamed Afghans for the Taliban’s victory.
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