Clarissa Ward

Even the Taliban are in shock: my week on the Kabul front line

issue 21 August 2021

Kabul

I’ve been to the front line in Iraq, Syria and Libya and witnessed all kinds of crazy, unlikely events. But I have never seen anything like what’s happening in Kabul. Only two weeks ago, I was reporting for CNN in the city of Kandahar. It was clear that this provincial capital would not be the last to fall.

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