The last time I saw Kandahar, it was a remote Taliban bastion. How that’s changed.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – What a difference two decades make. When I last visited this southern Afghan city – the cradle of the Taliban insurgency - I flew in on a plane chartered by the International Committee for the Red Cross. The airstrip was tiny, as was the airport. The city was a backwater, with no […]








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