Is the Afghanistan crisis changing UK attitudes to military intervention?
New polling suggests a majority of the British public believe the West has failed Afghan women and children.
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Read the New Statesman’s latest comment, long-read features and analysis on Afghanistan.
How serious is the phone call that Dominic Raab never made?
The issue is not whether a call from the Foreign Secretary to an Afghan government on the brink of collapse…
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Where Afghans stand on peace and women’s rights
In a country exhausted by corruption and war, most Afghans believe the Taliban’s Islamic emirate is a price worth paying…
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Rory Stewart: Afghanistan marks the end of liberal interventionism
The former cabinet minister on why there was no need for the US to withdraw from Afghanistan
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The Afghanistan crisis has exploded Boris Johnson’s “Global Britain” delusions
The assumptions made as the UK wrecked its relationship with the EU have been destroyed by the US retreat.
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Afghanistan’s plight and its contested future are a reassertion of the brutal realities of geography
The Taliban takeover could spark a contest for influence between regional powers such as China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan
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The fall of Kabul has exposed the intellectual void at the heart of British foreign policy
The UK’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was ultimately decided by Washington, and the government was powerless to stop it.
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The Afghanistan crisis shows Europe cannot wall itself off from the world
As migration linked to conflict and climate change escalates, the EU will need to rethink its approach to refugees.
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The Taliban’s new reign of terror
The US retreat ensured a victory for the militant group. Despite talk of moderation, a creed of savage misogyny will…
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Why the government’s pledge to take 20,000 Afghan refugees is inadequate
Twenty thousand is the same number Britain resettled from Syria, a country close to half the size of Afghanistan – and…
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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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Why Tories are in despair over Boris Johnson’s handling of the Afghanistan crisis
Conservatives are stuck with a leader incapable of taking important decisions and who is held in contempt by his Western peers.
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After the Afghanistan withdrawal, the West will soon learn “troops out” has consequences
Voters in the US and Europe may have had enough of “forever wars”, but there will be no escaping the…
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Afghanistan Diary: The fall of Kabul was predictable – if you were there
Living in Afghanistan’s capital the week before the Taliban captured the city, I found a reality at odds with US…
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Joe Biden passes the buck over the Afghanistan crisis
An unrepentant US President blamed Afghans for the Taliban’s victory.
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Prime minister says he hopes talks in the new year will set a timetable for handover to local forces
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ByMake no mistake, this imperial war in Afghanistan cannot be won
We warned in 2001 that this conflict could put Britain and the US on the wrong side of the moral…
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