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Rahmatullah Nabil: The story of an Afghan spymaster (Part 1)

Rahmatullah Nabil is an Afghan politician and former intelligence chief. Having lost his father at the age of one, he was raised by his mother, who dedicated her life to him. Nabil left school and joined one of the Mujahideen fact…

Sir William Patey: The Taliban cannot turn Kabul into a Pashtun village

Sir William Patey is a retired British diplomat with extensive experience in Middle Eastern and South Asian geopolitics. He served as the UK Ambassador to Kabul from 2010 to 2012, following earlier roles as Ambassador to Sudan, Iraq, and Saudi Ara…

Mark Urban: I was with Massoud when he took Kabul in 1992

Mark Urban is a British journalist, broadcaster, and best-selling author of many books, including War in Afghanistan and The Skripal Files. He has covered Afghanistan extensively since the late 1980s, witnessing firsthand the wit…

Sir Laurie Bristow: The inside story of the fall of Kabul

Sir Laurie Bristow, the UK's last ambassador in Kabul, witnessed the disintegration of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul into the hands of the Taliban in August 2021. He is the author of Kabul: Final Call, whi…

Thomas Barfield: Time to break up Afghanistan? (Part 2)

Professor Thomas Barfield is one of the preeminent experts on Afghanistan, having spent over five decades studying and writing on the country. He is the author of 'Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History' and 'Shadow Empires,' among many others…

Thomas Barfield: Time to break up Afghanistan? (Part 1)

Send us a Text Message.Professor Thomas Barfield is one of the preeminent experts on Afghanistan, having spent over five decades studying and writing on the country. He is the author of 'Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History' and 'Shadow Empi…

Artemis Akbary: The costs of being gay in Afghanistan

Thomas Ruttig: The untold story of Germany in Afghanistan (Part 2)

Thomas Ruttig: The untold of Germany in Afghanistan (Part 1)

Fereshta Abbasi: I am lucky to be alive