How much did the Afghanistan war cost the US?
Official estimates show the war cost $1trn but unoffiical figures suggest the real figure was more than double that.
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What the Taliban’s victory means for Afghanistan and the world
The repercussions of the fall of the Afghan state will be felt for years to come.
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The UK government must repair its disastrous refugee policy
We are retreating from Afghanistan with one hand and closing the door to anyone who might want to do the…
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Diary: Witnessing the last days of Ashraf Ghani’s Afghanistan
As Taliban forces enter Kabul, foreign correspondent Lynne O'Donnell reports on the horrors following in their wake.
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The Afghan government’s collapse is a humiliation for the United States and Joe Biden
The US president’s insistence that the Taliban would not retake Afghanistan was disastrously complacent.
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Germany’s CDU/CSU alliance is on course for its worst election result in postwar history
The CDU candidate Armin Laschet has alienated German voters – but his opponents have failed to win them over.
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Afghanistan is at a perilous tipping point
The speed of the Taliban advance means that the best the Afghan government can hope for is a slightly stronger…
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In Afghanistan, a reviled president is being exposed as powerless
The Afghan state is not so much collapsing before our eyes as revealing itself as a fiction.
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