Five years after the Taliban won, Afghanistan is still losing
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Five years after the U.S. withdrawal, Afghanistan remains gripped by one of the world's worst human rights and humanitarian emergencies under Taliban rule. This enduring crisis underscores the devastating long-term fallout from the two-decade war and subsequent power shift, casting a shadow on the effectiveness and legacy of the $2.3 trillion U.S. intervention.
In the five years since the chaotic US withdrawal from Kabul and the Taliban’s return to power, Afghanistan has become home to one of the world’s worst human rights and humanitarian emergencies. Once central to US foreign policy, with American taxpayers footing a $2.3 trillion bill for its 20-year war there, Afghanistan and its people … The post Five years after the Taliban won, Afghanistan is still losing appeared first on Egypt Independent.
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