Taliban enters Kabul as Afghan president flees: 4 essential reads. Under siege, President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan has departed the country as Taliban insurgents, who had seized most major Afghan cities in recent weeks, moved into their final target, the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Aug. 15, 2021. United States personnel were evacuated from Afghanistan and, according to the Associated Press, panicked citizens aiming to escape were “lining up at cash machines to withdraw their life savings” on Sunday. Afghans now face a life not under democratic rule but under the rule of radical Islamic fighters. The apparent fall of Afghanistan came just three months after the U.S. began to withdraw its troops from the country after a 20-year war that killed 2,448 U.S. service members, 3,846 U.S. military contractors and 66,000 Afghan national military and police. For Afghans and international observers of a certain age, it looks like history is repeating itself. The… https://ift.tt/3g3cqow
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