The horrific bombing of a Kabul girls’ school highlights just how tenuous the gains of the past 20 years are as foreign forces start withdrawing from Afghanistan for certain.
Family members visit the grave of their son and nephew, who was killed in a triple bombing outside the Sayed Ul-Shuhada high school in Kabul on May 8. He had been trying to help people after the initial car bomb when a second bomb was triggered. Andrew Quilty
On February 29 last year, a group of men crowded around a television in an electronics shop in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, the deadliest for foreign soldiers in the US-led war in Afghanistan.
The men, including my friend and journalist Aliyas Dayee, with whom I had worked in Helmand for several years since moving to Afghanistan in 2013, were watching a live broadcast of the signing of an agreement between the United States and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar.
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