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The Taliban’s win will unleash the next wave of global jihad

18 August 2021

9:03 AM

18 August 2021

9:03 AM

The Taliban retaking Kabul has been inevitable for almost the entirety of the 20 year war, and certainly since Barack Obama announced the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2011. And yet the manner in which Kabul has fallen, with images of despair and the Taliban’s unopposed march to the presidential palace, heralds a global tectonic shift.

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