As Taliban insurgents sweep across Afghanistan, the assassination of a defiant district governor is a case study in loss.
Source: Profile in courage: He defied the advancing Taliban, and paid with his life
Poland is rushing to build a border wall and taking a harder line against those helping asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa while welcoming Ukrainians.
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On August 30, 2021, nearly 20 years after they arrived, the last US troops left Afghanistan. Now, some six months later, the world has largely moved on from the story of Afghanistan and the people who remain there in the wake of the US withdrawal and the reinstatement of Taliban control. In this episode of Big World, SIS professor Tazreena Sajjad joins us to discuss what we get wrong about Afghanistan when we only talk about the ways that other nations, including the US, intersect with it.
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