Are the Biden administration's hopes of sustaining Taliban deal dead?

The Taliban have reportedly seized the Afghan city of Kunduz, the third provincial capital the group has overtaken in as many days.

Kunduz is a key city, militarily and politically, and its fall highlights the swiftness of the Taliban's advance in the wake of the U.S. troop withdrawal. It also further suggests that the Biden administration's slim hopes of keeping alive a tenuous deal, struck by the Trump administration and the Taliban, that sought to pave the way for a permanent ceasefire are dead, The Los Angeles Times' David Cloud writes.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.