From the final years of the US-backed republic to life under the Taliban, an eyewitness chronicles Kabul’s journey from hope and despair to peace without either
“When Ashraf Ghani goes, we’ll go with him. And he’ll go when the Americans do.”
The conversation took place on the balcony of a luxury high-rise in Shahr-e Naw, central Kabul. The man speaking to me was a young government employee, and Ashraf Ghani was serving his second term as president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. It was May 2017. The republic had four years and three months left.
A city living on borrowed time
Afghanistan at the time could best be described with a line…
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