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How the Taliban outlasted a superpower: Tenacity and carnage

By Mujib Mashal
New York Times·
19 mins to read
How the Taliban outlasted a superpower: Tenacity and carnage
How the Taliban outlasted a superpower: Tenacity and carnage

The Taliban stand on the brink of realising their most fervent desire: US troops leaving Afghanistan. They have given up little of their extremist ideology to do it.

Under the shade of a mulberry tree, near grave sites dotted with Taliban flags, a top insurgent military leader in eastern Afghanistan

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