What the US is doing to Afghanistan amounts to a humanitarian crime | Larry Elliott

Washington and the west are inflicting brutal collective punishment on an already destitute people by freezing assets and aid

The war in Afghanistan did not end when US and UK troops left Kabul airport last year; it merely took a different, but still lethal, form.

The response of President Joe Biden to the military humiliation inflicted on America by the Taliban has been a scorched-earth policy designed to cause the maximum amount of economic damage to what was already one of the world's poorest countries.