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People line up to board a U.S. transport plane during the evacuation of civilians from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, after the Taliban’s lightning-fast takeover of the country as coalition forces withdraw.

The Taliban seized an arsenal of U.S.-made military equipment, but not the grossly exaggerated figure of $85 billion worth of equipment numerous Republicans have claimed - that figure is the total amount spent on the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund since the war began in 2001. Read more»

U.S. soldiers patrol a village in the Tani district of Khost Province, Afghanistan, in May 2012.

European newscasts have focused for weeks on a violent nation cursed by a pandemic, where armed fundamentalists hostile to Western values want one-party rule, a cowed press and kangaroo courts. And besides America, they also talk about Afghanistan. Read more»

A total of 823 Afghan civilians – 640 adults with 183 children sitting in their laps – pack the hold of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III as they flee Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 to destroy al-Qaida, remove the Taliban from power and remake the nation. The 20 numbers highlighted below, some drawn from figures released on Sept. 1, 2021, by the Costs of War Project, help tell the story of the Afghanistan War. Read more»

President Donald Trump’s ban on the visa lottery was ruled to be illegal, but the government says it can’t help hundreds of Afghans who won it for at least another year. Read more»

Soldiers from Turkey and the United Kingdom hoist a child to U.S. Marines during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport Friday in Kabul, Afghanistan, as U.S. and coalition forces scramble to evacuate people in the face of the Taliban retaking control of the country.

A lacerating report this week was the 11th in a clear-eyed series that revealed the US failure to reconstruct Afghanistan over two decades - so why didn’t anyone heed the inspector general’s warnings? Read more»

A total of 823 Afghan civilians – 640 adults with 183 children sitting in their laps – pack the hold of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III as they flee Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday. The passenger count of 823 is a record for the C-17.

Phoenix resident Naqibullah “Nakib” Isaczai welcomed Gov. Doug Ducey’s announcement that Arizona will accept refugees fleeing the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan – but still worries that the U.S. response will be too little, too late. Read more»

Here we go again. Americans clamor for the exits, leaving behind innocent blood and sophisticated weapons for jubilant irregulars who humiliated them with antiquated guns and makeshift bombs. Next time, America risks bumbling into another unwinnable war with an adversary that can hit back hard - and closer to home. Read more»

The Taliban – which means 'the students' in Pashto – seized control of Afghanistan in 1996 after capturing Kabul in the Afghan civil war. They established a government based on their extreme interpretation of Islamic Sharia law and ruled for five years. The Taliban regime was then toppled in 2001 by the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.

There would be “no transitional government in Afghanistan,” Taliban officials told Reuters news service, as panic and turmoil grip Afghanistan after Taliban insurgents captured the capital city of Kabul and the president fled on Aug. 15, 2021. Read more»

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III walks with the commander of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission and U.S. Forces – Afghanistan, Army Gen. Scott Miller, at Resolute Support Headquarters, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 21, 2021.

Mark R. Jacobson, a foreign policy expert at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University who served as a reserve officer in 2006 and then returned in a civilian role, working as a foreign policy adviser, offers both personal and professional perspectives on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Read more»

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 77th Fighter Squadron, takes off Nov. 21, 2017, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

Even before the US military completes the final steps of its troop withdrawal, the Taliban is surging, threatening not only the gains made in the past two decades, at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, but also global stability. Read more»

Trump awaits the judgment of Sens. Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema.

Ignoring the facts of Donald Trump's impeachment case would be a case of the U.S. Senate giving up on fight against corruption. In that case, they're all open to baseless allegations. Let me show them how. Read more»

Martha McSally (left) and Kyrsten Sinema attacked each other’s voting records during a live debate Monday night.

In a debate peppered with accusations of lying and treason, Senate candidates Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema took shots at each other in their only public debate of the 2018 election, each calling out the other’s voting record as proof that the other candidate is not a true representative of Arizona. Read more» 1

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, are co-sponsors of a proposal that would give Congress a chance to vote on the use of the military in the war on terror – something last approved 16 years ago.

When Congress first authorized military action against terrorists in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Jeff Flake was a freshman in the House and Tim Kaine was still mayor of Richmond. Today, both are U.S. senators and the county is still waging war under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force – a vote they say it’s time to revisit. Read more»

Deep into the drawdown, fuel is no longer distributed to smaller bases by road — it is too dangerous and there aren't enough trucks. Two Chinooks at Kandahar Airfield prepare to deliver fuel containers to a small contingent of troops at FOB Apache in neighboring Zabul Province.

American troops who remain on the ground no longer try to sugarcoat the reality that the war has accomplished little of permanence. Read more»

James Foley reporting in Tripoli, Libya in August 2011.

GlobalPost's editorial team pays tribute to their slain colleague and friend. Read more»

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