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The Taliban learn just how hard governing Afghanistan is

13 October 2021

12:54 PM

13 October 2021

12:54 PM

For the first time in two decades, and arguably for the first time since the late 1970s, there is a semblance of calm in Afghanistan’s countryside. The U.S. troop withdrawal last August, ending Washington’s 20-year misadventure in the country, has ushered in a period when airstrikes, IEDs, and Taliban-orchestrated bombings are no longer daily facts of life.

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