The last lunch for the last president of Afghanistan was vegetable fritters, salad and steamed broccoli. Nasrullah, the head chef at the presidential palace in Kabul, fried the fritters and steamed the vegetable himself. He tasted it all to make sure it was good — it was, although steamed broccoli has a limited range of […]
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8 Americans Reflect on U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan
It was about to get worse. Most of the embassy’s staff left Afghanistan that night or early the next day. But Mr. Wilson and about 30 other American diplomats stayed on for two more weeks, trying to find and evacuate other U.S. citizens and permanent residents, and foreign allies, among the tens of thousands of […]