Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Peter Arnett, renowned for frontline reporting from Vietnam to Iraq and iconic Gulf War broadcasts from Baghdad, died at 91 in California after battling prostate cancer, leaving a lasting legacy in global journalism.
As the US called curtains on its ‘forever war’ and evacuated its last soldier, it left behind a country in a complete mess. Even its own coalition partners were dismayed and could make little of Washington’s harried exit. Many Afghans are now without a ‘home’ and almost half the population needs humanitarian assistance to survive. […]