How the world is legitimizing the Taliban
Adnan R. Khan: Every political engagement and dollar spent in Afghanistan brings an internationally-sanctioned terrorist organization one step closer to unofficial recognition
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Afghanistan
The world left these Afghan women behind. Now they’re fending for themselves.
Educated in a Canadian-funded school, they became Afghanistan’s best and brightest young women. Today they live in fear, abandoned to the Taliban.
Exclusive: The real story of baby Farhan, the child passed over barbed wire in Afghanistan
Shannon Gormley describes how the baby made it over the wall at the Kabul airport and journeyed to Canada. It is also a tale of how Western democracies revealed the nature of their fight in Afghanistan through their abandonment of it.
In Afghanistan, the signs of our failure were everywhere
Paul Wells: How did the West get things so terribly wrong?
Post 9/11, young Afghans tasted peace. Now, Hadia Essazada is in exile.
When the Taliban fell after 9/11, Afghanistan entered a period of hope. For Essazada, it feels as if the Taliban have won again.
The last trip out of Afghanistan: ‘There is no way back. Taliban are outside.’
They had close ties to Canada and were being hunted by the Taliban. Trapped in a dangerous, desperate crowd, the odds were against them.
Will the crisis in Kabul move votes in Canada?
Election Image of the Day: The desperate effort to get people out of Afghanistan is front of mind in Ottawa. You wouldn’t know it from watching the campaign.
A Canadian bottleneck in Kabul is endangering innocent lives
Paul Wells: People struggling to escape and those helping them are running up against procedural confusion layered on top of constant mortal danger
Where do Canada’s political parties stand on wars like Afghanistan?
Justin Ling: I asked the three main parties: Have we learned anything from Afghanistan? One clear theme emerges in all their answers (or lack thereof).
Left to the Taliban: ’Nobody from Canada has contacted us’
Adnan R. Khan: While other countries hurriedly work to get people out, Canada’s Prime Minister appears to not have a clue. And this country’s silence is deafening.