This episode was published days before the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and just weeks after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan. It is the first part in Afghanistan: The Center of the World, our ...

For Afghanistan, 2021 was punctuated by the chaos of a U.S. withdrawal and an uncertain next chapter. The Taliban quickly took power back in mid-August. They could not be stopped by a collapsing ...

A new report by an independent U.S. watchdog agency says the Department of Defense contributed to the sudden collapse of the Afghan security forces in August 2021 partly due to poor planning and lack ...