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<strong>The long read</strong>: Once the site of legendary parties, the Intercontinental in Kabul is still a potent symbol of who rules Afghanistan – and what its future might hold
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<strong>The long read</strong>: Once the site of legendary parties, the Intercontinental in Kabul is still a potent symbol of who rules Afghanistan – and what its future might hold
Parents say they are at a loss in dealing with the trauma of their children who should be playing, not grieving.
An Indian man who cycled 4,000 miles (approx. 6,500 km) from his home country to Sweden in 1977, ...
August 15, 2021 Kabul has fallen, and it took the Taliban only a few weeks to sweep away the Afghan army, which had been financed and trained by the United States for twenty years. As a reminder, the communist regime had survived the withdrawal of the Red Army for three years. But the Afghan disaster, beyond a one-off defeat, is a sign of the fiasco of the “war on terror”. It was the spring of 1988, and we were gathered in Kabul. In a declaration by Mikhail Gorbachev, general secretary of (...)