Ghani, Ashraf
The One Item They Had to Take When These 6 Afghans Fled
Neither Maliha Karimi nor most of her family members had ever been on a plane or even inside the Kabul airport, but the idea of leaving gathered momentum, and they set off for the airport. “I just took my passport and one phone,” she recalled, “We had no food, no water.” Ms. Karimi, 27, the […]
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An Afghan Official Laments What Was Lost and Looks to What Lies Ahead
What most haunts Ahmad Nader Nadery about the last hours before the Taliban seized power in Kabul are the words of a police officer, exhausted after a tense night, who appealed to him to secure a peace deal. “It’s too much,” the officer said. “We need to end this.” One of Afghanistan’s top negotiators in […]
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Inside the Fall of Kabul: An On-the-Ground Account
On July 15, I went to the palace to see Mohib. Above the gate tower, a giant tricolor of the republic fluttered against a clear blue sky. After passing through security, I walked across the long, deserted lawn toward the building that held the Office of the National Security Council. I waited in the council’s […]
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