Afghanistan collapsing amid U.S. withdrawal
Outposts across the country are falling in a wave of negotiated surrenders to the Taliban as U.S. troops withdraw.
By David Zucchino
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Najim Rahims
New York Times
May 26, 2021 — 9:20pm
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MEHTAR LAM, AFGHANISTAN – Ammunition was depleted inside the bedraggled outposts in Laghman Province. Food was scarce. Some police officers hadn't been paid in five months.
Then, just as U.S. troops began leaving the country in early May, Taliban fighters besieged seven rural Afghan military outposts across the wheat fields and onion patches of the province in eastern Afghanistan.