Afghanistan: Is There An End To America's Longest War?

NPR

Published August 29, 2017 at 12:20 PM EDT

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Email

Afghan security personnel keep watch at the site of a suicide attack outside a bank near the US embassy in Kabul on August 29, 2017. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)

President Trump has unveiled a new U.S. strategy for the war in Afghanistan.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks to the BBC’s Zia Shahreyar (@ziashahreyar) in Kabul and Michael Kugelman (@MichaelKugelman), deputy director of the Asia Program at the Wilson Center, about whether the new strategy really addresses the challenges this war presents.