By Rahim Faiez & Amir Shah, AP: “Gunmen in Afghanistan stormed a partially constructed building near an intelligence training center on Monday in western Kabul, triggering a gunbattle with security forces as detonations and shooting reverberated from the area.”
By Benjamin Schreer, The Strategist (ASPI): “ ... the U.S., as the lead nation in the Afghanistan intervention, also wasted major opportunities to potentially achieve lasting success, to degrade the insurgency and to help build sustainable political structures.”