August 16, 2021
Exclusive: U.S. Embassy Sent Alert On Ghani Before Taliban Took Kabul
Lisa Curtis, senior fellow and director of the Indo-Pacific Security program discusses the problems with the agreements made with the Taliban during the 2020 negotiations.
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