The graveyard of empires
Afghanistan is back at the centre of attention, for all the wrong reasons.
In this week’s Not in Dispatches, we want to go behind the news of a resurgent ISIS-Khorasan and the Taliban’s recent deal-making with Russia and Iran to re-examine the history of Afghanistan and its enduring role in great power politics. The world may have forgotten about Afghanistan, but Afghanis…
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