Have the Taliban won the Afghan war?
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The Times
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🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Four decades of war have ravaged Afghanistan, cost America $2 trillion and left more than one million dead. As US troops prepare to withdraw, what next for a nation more divided than ever?
Guest:
Anthony Loyd, Times foreign correspondent.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | After 18 years of war, America and the Taliban signed a peace deal at the end of February. |
| 0:08.0 | It's time, after all these years, to go and to bring our people back home. |
| 0:15.8 | We want to bring our people back home. |
| 0:18.4 | Will this deal lead to a lasting peace? |
| 0:21.2 | Or as coronavirus distracts West will it undo everything that NATO troops fought for? |
| 0:27.0 | Everyone's eyes been sort of taken off with, been going on in the world's longest war because of Corona, |
| 0:36.0 | but in fact the war is escalating again. |
| 0:39.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. I'm |
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| 2:01.0 | Was this really your 27th visit? |
| 2:05.0 | Yeah it was which dates me a bit. |
| 2:08.0 | Suddenly the years go by and African Stolsh I first went to in, I think it was February 1996, |
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