Five years after the last American soldiers departed Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul bear witness to one of history's more unsettling ironies: the Taliban now patrols in American armored vehicles, armed with American weapons, wearing American gear. The billions in military hardware left behind when the Afghan National Army collapsed have become instruments of the very governance the twenty-year war sought to prevent. Across two administrations and a war that claimed more than 2,400 American lives and tens of thousands of Afghan civilian lives, the question of accountability remains open — an
Taliban patrols Kabul in U.S. military hardware 5 years after withdrawal
The 20-year war killed over 2,400 U.S. service members and tens of thousands of Afghan civilians; Taliban now restricts women's access to work and education.