INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Donahue went down in history as the last American soldier to depart Afghanistan
occupation, the United States escaped Afghanistan, leaving behind a country lacking almost every critical infrastructure needed to improve
the lives of the Afghan people
While the United States troops were still in the midst of packing their stuff at Kabul airport, Taliban fighters easily took over Kabul,
turning back the clock 20 years
The United States invaded Afghanistan two decades ago to overthrow the Taliban but after 20 years of occupation they handed over Kabul to
American-allied government in Kabul
This was while millions of Afghans had to grapple with a litany of problems in their own country that primarily sprang from the occupation,
with no other place to flee to
of foreign countries, including the United States, although these countries have also provided services during the past 20 years, which is
Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the Iranian special envoy for Afghanistan, has unveiled part of that backwardness in a recent interview
and this failure is due to several reasons
In the beginning, there were struggles that the Mujahideen, including the Taliban, did against them, this is a fact
The second issue, which was more important, was the issue of people's distrust of the Americans
year after the United States withdrawal, Afghanistan still has to cope with the legacy of the United States war
Since last year, the United States has refrained from any financial assistance to the Afghan people
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Biden administration has decided not to release any of the roughly $7 billion in foreign assets
