mujahedin, the western backed freedom fighters, as they were called back then, who were fighting against the soviet regime. my parents were threatened when they had to take refuge with my aunt in the province of helmand, which is also in the south of the country. i was seven when the taliban took over afghanistan, and it was then that i wasn t allowed to go to school, so i had to go to three different underground schools in the five years that the taliban were in charge. then 9/11 happened. after 9/11, the international involvement happen. i went to my first involvement happen. i went to my first official school in 2002, my first official school in 2002, and i got a job with a local 2002, and i got a job with a local tv 2002, and i got a job with a local tv station in 2006. in 2007, local tv station in 2006. in 2007, i local tv station in 2006. in 2007, ijoined the bbc and came to the 2007, ijoined the bbc and came to the uk 2007, ijoined the bbc and came to the uk. i was
uk and around the world. the us military has completed its withdrawal from afghanistan after a mission lasting nearly 20 years. general frank mckenzie who has overseen the pull out says the us has evacuated nearly 80,000 civilians in the past few weeks and said more than 21100 us service personnel had been killed in the last two decades. a taliban spokesperson said afghanistan had gained complete independence. 0ur chief international correspondent is international correspondent is in kabul. i international correspondent is in kabul. ., , international correspondent is inkabul. international correspondent is in kabul. ., in kabul. i was reporting from kabulwhen in kabul. i was reporting from kabul when the in kabul. i was reporting from kabul when the soviet - in kabul. i was reporting from kabul when the soviet troops| kabul when the soviet troops left. in 92 when the mujahedin took power. in 2001 the us invasion toppled the taliban. afghans have never lived through such a transiti
you have known the country for so many years, what is your assessment of what the era that begins tonight looks like for afghanistan? since it is a niuht looks like for afghanistan? since it is a night of looks like for afghanistan? since it is a night of history, looks like for afghanistan? since it is a night of history, since - looks like for afghanistan? since it is a night of history, since it - looks like for afghanistan? since it is a night of history, since it is - looks like for afghanistan? since it is a night of history, since it is a i is a night of history, since it is a time yet again where afghans are turning the page, i will bring in a bit of history. i was reporting from kabul 1989 when the soviet troops left, in 1992 when the mujahedin took power and in 2001 when the us led invasion toppled the taliban. afghans have never lived through such a transition, which is so fraught with fear, which is so shrouded in darkness and uncertainty. the mantra of the united state
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partner, as architects will tell you, and the trouble was there was no partner. the government in kabul was corrupt, ineffective and illegitimate. but peter, hindsight is 20/20 and president biden says he does not want to hand this war over to another american president. what could they have done? do you suggest that us troops stay there indefinitely? no, my point is the opposite. that the strategy failed. what can you say about a conflict where you spent several trillion dollars, in the case of the united states, nearly 2500 dead, nearly 500 uk soldiers dead, and at the end of it the government and military collapse in ten days. my first visit to afghanistan was on february 14th 1989 with the mujahedin, the day that the soviets withdrew.