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By Matt Elton\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 25 October 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The Taliban recently regained control of Afghanistan as US forces withdrew after two decades in the country. How can history help make sense of this seismic moment? Matt Elton joins a panel of experts \u2013 William Dalrymple, Rabia Latif Khan, Elisabeth Leake and Bijan Omrani \u2013 to explore how Afghanistan\u2019s past can help us understand its present situation.<\/p>\n\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/"\">How to download the HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\""https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/afghanistan-ahistoryofinstability\/media.mp3"\">Download as MP3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\""lazy"\" style=\""border-radius:\" src=\""https:\/\/historyextra.podlink.to\/Podcast?embed=true"\" width=\""480"\" height=\""900"\" frameborder=\""0"\" data-mce-fragment=\""1"\"\/><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Matt Elton Published: Monday, 25 October 2021 at 12:00 am The Taliban recently regained control of Afghanistan as US forces withdrew after two decades in the country. How can history help make sense of this seismic moment? Matt Elton joins a panel of experts \u2013 William Dalrymple, Rabia Latif Khan, Elisabeth Leake and Bijan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6470,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/afghanistan-a-history-of-instability.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/afghanistan-a-history-of-instability-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/afghanistan-a-history-of-instability-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/afghanistan-a-history-of-instability.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/afghanistan-a-history-of-instability.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/afghanistan-a-history-of-instability.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/afghanistan-a-history-of-instability.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Matt Elton Published: Monday, 25 October 2021 at 12:00 am The Taliban recently regained control of Afghanistan as US forces withdrew after two decades in the country. How can history help make sense of this seismic moment? Matt Elton joins a panel of experts \u2013 William Dalrymple, Rabia Latif Khan, Elisabeth Leake and Bijan…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/6469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}