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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Why Joe Biden is wrong to say that Afghans did not fight for themselves
Nearly 70,000 Afghan soldiers and police, and more than 47,000 civilians died in the 20-year conflict.
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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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The Taliban has taken lessons from the global jihadist movement
A dangerous and empty rhetoric of moderation has helped jihadist groups across the world endure.
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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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