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Faces of those America is leaving behind in Afghanistan

  • Written by Brian Glyn Williams, Professor of Islamic History, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
imageThe people of Afghanistan that the author encountered live very different lives from Americans.Brian Glyn Williams, CC BY-ND

U.S. troops are already heading home from Afghanistan, ending a two-decade-long war that saw as many as 100,000 American troops there. The withdrawal of the remaining few thousand is slated to be complete by the symbolic date...

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