Afghanistan after the fall
A year since the Taliban took Kabul, they have learned that they cannot shut out the West.
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John Simpson is a foreign correspondent and world affairs editor of BBC News. He is a former editor of Granta magazine.
A year since the Taliban took Kabul, they have learned that they cannot shut out the West.
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