In Kunduz city, the Taliban scored their most emphatic victory in a decade and a half. On Monday, they stormed the city at the break of dawn and ruled it by afternoon, as the army, police and intelligence operatives beat a hasty retreat. Looking at the Taliban’s steady inroads into the north over the past 13 months, the fall of Kunduz — coming with a nagging sense of déjà-vu — is a rude shock to Kabul.
The Kunduz fiasco
In Kunduz city, the Taliban scored their most emphatic victory in a decade and a half. On Monday, they stormed the city at the break of dawn and ruled it by afternoon, as the army, police and intelligence operatives beat a hasty retreat. Looking at the Taliban’s steady inroads into the north over the past 13 months, the fall of Kunduz — coming with a nagging sense of déjà-vu — is a rude shock to Kabul.