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After 20 years, the result will be chaos and civil war We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss April 17, 2021 — 12.02am Normal text size After 20 years, the result will be chaos and civil war Tony Wright hits the nail on the head with his piece on the troop withdrawal (The Age, 16/4). Afghanistan, a country comprised of competing tribal and ethnic forces, is likely to descend into chaos and a civil war is likely to ensue. One only needs to look at Iraq for evidence of what happens when there are competing forces attempting to fill a power vacuum...

Ideally it works, but too often it’s a disaster We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss April 9, 2021 — 12.02am Save Normal text size Credit:Illustration: Cathy Wilcox To submit a letter to The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. UNIVERSITIES Ideally it works, but too often it’s a disaster As someone who was active in off-campus teaching for some 30 of a 50-year career in higher education, and with awards and media coverage for my innovations, I am nevertheless concerned at pro...

Australia’s world No. 1 made short, clean work of her round-of-16 clash with American Shelby Rogers and will face Karolina Muchova in the quarter-finals.

The unlikely script of a Gabba heist: As the Indian dressing-room emptied on to the vast stretches of the Gabba, we’d also finally reached the credits section of the most fantastical sports movie script ever written. So bizarre that it might even have been rejected by Bollywood, where hyperbole and exaggeration aren’t always looked down upon as excesses to the plot. How else do you explain what has transpired Down Under over the last five weeks or so. That exactly a month from the day a team reached its nadir, it could bounce back so high that it would surpass its erstwhile zenith. As sig...