The New Yorker - 28.10.2019

38 THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 remaining eighty-six hundred would leave within the next year and a half. The Taliban, for ...

THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 39 accord. “The sooner, the better,” Sha- heen said. “We stand by what we have agreed to.” The ...

40 THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 Workers shovelling talc, on Afghanistan’s eastern border. Most Afghan talc is exported to P ...

THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 41 The Taliban reportedly generate millions of dollars a year by taxing producers. ISIS hopes ...

42 THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 intelligence agency, the National Di- rectorate for Security, or N.D.S., pro- posed organiz ...

THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 43 bound behind his back. He was thrown to the ground and kicked repeatedly. His mother, who w ...

44 THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 Abdul Qayum, a former ISIS commander, recently renounced the organization, in a ceremony le ...

THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 45 Zero-Two killed fourteen people there, in two compounds. An N.D.S. officer provided a state ...

46 THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 hellish and destructive for Afghans, they have also made it even more abstract for American ...

THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 47 Jamila Afghani, a promoter of gender equality. She recently confronted Taliban members abou ...

48 THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 the rest of society. But that forgiveness must have meaning. You must join us.” During the ...

THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 49 atic discrimination and violence. Now, in addition, they want to oppress us more?” Neverthe ...

50 THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 Eid ceasefire, he told me that he had recently attempted to return to his home village, in ...

THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 51 because so many of them are being extorted. “It’s not only doctors,” one told me. “It’s all ...

52 THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 and girls attended. “The people were happy,” Qayum said. In 2003, the Taliban began reëmerg ...

THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 53 me that, in 2002, a U.S. bombing raid had killed his father, in Jalalabad. Salam joined the ...

54 THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 PROFILES ORIGINAL MAN Why do so many directors want to work with Adam Driver? BY MICHAEL SC ...

THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 55 Colleagues view Driver as a throwback to the off-center movie stars of the seventies. “Game ...

code for the role.) I remember being jarred by his presence in the film: What’s the pervy hipster from “Girls” doing in the nine ...

THENEWYORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 57 Then there’s the “Star Wars” reboot, in which Driver plays Kylo Ren, an in- terplanetary wa ...