The Afghan Friends We Leave Behind
In 2018, a video journalist named Abadullah Hananzai, 26, who worked for the U.S.-funded RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi, was murdered in a double suicide bomb attack in Kabul. The second bomber had disguised himself as a media worker, and purposefully blew himself up in a group of reporters who’d rushed to cover the scene of the first blast. Hananzai was one of 25 people killed—including at least nine...