Afghanistan Withdrawal: the best of The New Statesman’s articles
Read all our reporting and analysis of the Taliban’s takeover and the UK’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Why Tories are in despair over Boris Johnson’s handling of the Afghanistan crisis
Conservatives are stuck with a leader incapable of taking important decisions and who is held in contempt by his Western peers.
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After the Afghanistan withdrawal, the West will soon learn “troops out” has consequences
Voters in the US and Europe may have had enough of “forever wars”, but there will be no escaping the…
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Afghanistan Diary: The fall of Kabul was predictable – if you were there
Living in Afghanistan’s capital the week before the Taliban captured the city, I found a reality at odds with US…
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Joe Biden passes the buck over the Afghanistan crisis
An unrepentant US President blamed Afghans for the Taliban’s victory.
ByBrown hopes for Afghanistan pull-out talks
Prime minister says he hopes talks in the new year will set a timetable for handover to local forces
ByMinisters expect request for more troops in Afghanistan
Government tries to shore up public support as Britain suffers bloodiest month
ByMake no mistake, this imperial war in Afghanistan cannot be won
We warned in 2001 that this conflict could put Britain and the US on the wrong side of the moral…
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