Yesterday a lot of the world appeared on in horror as the Taliban took the Afghan capital of Kabul and with it, management of the whole nation. The Taliban’s speedy advance throughout Afghanistan took little greater than every week after U.S. forces withdrew from the nation after two lengthy many years.
The results for the Afghan individuals will probably be rapid. As for the relaxation of the world? Many are predicting {that a} Taliban-ruled Afghanistan might as soon as once more develop into a hotbed of terrorist exercise that would see plots of the scale of 9/11 occur once more.
Whereas governments around the world are nonetheless speeding to digest what Afghanistan’s fall means from a geopolitical perspective, right here’s how newspapers around the globe have already covered the fall of Afghanistan.
Tomorrow’s USA TODAY front web page is tough to take a look at.
For 18 of the 20 years of America’s conflict in Afghanistan, I used to be a reporter and editor in a army city.
We covered each angle of the post-9/11 conflict on terror, notably its toll in lives.
At this time was heartbreaking. pic.twitter.com/zarLP5yrIj
— Matt Leclercq (@Matt_Leclercq) August 15, 2021
