Top related persons:
Top related locs:
Top related orgs:

Search resuls for: "Akmal Amir"


1 mentions found


One man spent his childhood in the foothills of northeastern Afghanistan dreaming of being a soldier for the U.S.-backed government. The other secretly applied to a military academy — against his parents’ wishes — determined to prove himself on the battlefield. Both went on to have storied careers during the war and fled their country alongside other commandos when the Taliban seized power in August 2021. The two men — Mr. Amir, 33, and Basir Andarabi, 35 — had bonded in exile over a shared resolve to retake their homeland. But the Taliban takeover was so sudden, so shocking, they could not accept defeat; it felt more like a chapter in the war than its epilogue.
Persons: , , , Akmal Amir, Mr, Amir, Basir Andarabi Organizations: U.S Locations: Afghanistan
Total: 1