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AAN in the Media

Afghan forces face intense Taliban test as foreign troops leave

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AFP/France24, 4 August 2021

AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted here on the dropping morale in the Afghan government forces:

“Even if the government had intended to let some districts fall… the damage to morale of the security forces and of the nation of seeing districts toppling like dominoes cannot be underestimated,” Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network wrote in an assessment last month.