The US military withdrawal from Afghanistan was an execution of the 2020 peace deal the Trump administration negotiated with the Taliban. The rapid fall of the country to the Taliban and President Ashraf Ghani’s decision to flee on 16 August 2021 brought an abrupt, ugly and yet unsurprising end ..
Majeed Malhas
Majeed Malhas is a Palestinian-Canadian journalist from Amman, Jordan and a Contributing Editor at Spheres of Influence, an international relations publication. He received his MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics & Political Science in 2020, where he has since written for publications such as +972 Magazine and Adbusters. His academic and journalistic work addresses issues of political economy manifesting in public health, contemporary political developments, and social & cultural strife in the Middle East and North America. His writing can be followed on his substack.