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What To Expect After The Afghanistan Withdrawal Ends

Published August 31, 2021 at 12:06 PM EDT
Taliban Badri special force fighters stand guard next to a Afghan Air Force aircraft at the airport in Kabul (Wakil Kohsar/Getty Images)
Taliban Badri special force fighters stand guard next to a Afghan Air Force aircraft at the airport in Kabul (Wakil Kohsar/Getty Images)

With no U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, the Taliban now has to govern and secure the country on its own.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd talks with Charlotte Bellis, a reporter for Al Jazeera English who joins us from Kabul.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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