The Taliban took over Afghanistan one year ago. How are they running it?
The Global Agora15 Aug 2022

The Taliban took over Afghanistan one year ago. How are they running it?

The Taliban took over Kabul one year ago, on August 15th. It had a huge geopolitical significance but I have to admit there is another reason why it's so easy for me to remember it. The fact is that August 15th is my birthday. About what happened in Afghanistan in one year, I talked to Vanda Felbab-Brown. She is a Senior Fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings Institution and also the Director of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors. We recorded our conversation one day after it was announced that the leader of Al-Qaeda Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in Kabul by an American strike. So we started with al-Zawahiri, and we moved to the debate about the troops' withdrawal and about how the Taliban is running the country. Listen to our conversation. And if enjoy what I do, please support me on Ko-fi! Thank you. https://ko-fi.com/amatisak

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