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Suicide bomber. Resistance fighter. Child grave robber. Four decades of war in Aghanistan

By Anthony Loyd
The Times·
30 mins to read

Four decades of war have ravaged Afghanistan, cost America $3 trillion and left more than one million dead. As US troops prepare to withdraw, the award-winning Times journalist Anthony Loyd returns to the country that has always obsessed him – and asks, what next for a nation more divided than ever?

In the rose garden of the warlord walked a newly freed man. Spare-framed, his dark hair cropped in a convict cut, he was in his early thirties and had

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