Intelligence Warned of Afghan Military Collapse, Despite Biden's Assurances
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 | |
| By Mujib Mashal and Richard Pérez-Peña In their first statement since taking control, the Taliban hinted at a rule unlike their brutal regime a generation ago, trying to placate skeptics. | | | By Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes and Adam Goldman Even as the president was telling the public that Kabul was unlikely to fall, intelligence assessments painted a grimmer picture. | | | News Analysis By Roger Cohen The desperate scenes at the Kabul airport will now give Afghanistan a place in America's national memory as another failed attempt to reshape a far-off land. | | |
| Magazine By Jaeah Lee His death helped awaken the nation to a rise in anti-Asian violence. For his grieving family, the reckoning hasn't gone far enough. | | | Opinion | Guest Essay By Malala Yousafzai In the last two decades, millions of Afghan women and girls received an education. Now the future they were promised is in imminent danger. | | |
| By The Associated Press Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York announced that starting Sept. 13 those who are 12 and older will be required to show proof of having received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine in order to participate in indoor dining, fitness or entertainment. | | | By The Associated Press Authorities issued evacuation orders as the Dixie Fire, the second-largest in California's recorded history, burned toward the city of Susanville in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. | | | By Storyful A female news anchor interviewed a Taliban official on an Afghan television station. The group's takeover has raised fears of a return to repressive policies and human rights violations for women and girls. | | |
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