Five years after the fall of Kabul, the former Afghan soldier is stuck in the middle of a new American war War is Abbas’s* earliest memory. As a child, the first iteration of Taliban rule forced his family to flee – with nothing but the clothes on their backs and what food they could carry – for...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/15/afghan-soldier-iran-war-abandoned-by-australia-us-british-troops-taliban)