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Twenty-five years after 9/11

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Afghanistan forces the West to confront an uncomfortable question: did its response make it safer, or expose the limits of military power and imposed political transformation?

A silhouetted man rides a bicycle across a dusty, barren landscape, with a hazy, mountainous city visible in the background

Kabul’s Russian remedy

Afghanistan’s Taliban regime abruptly cancels a major energy contract with a Chinese firm, pivoting to Moscow for a new deal. This calculated manoeuvre reveals a sophisticated strategy to exploit great-power rivalry for its own survival