Since the fall of Kabul, a lot of focus has been on the failures of the American trained Afghan military. VICE News correspondent Ben C. Solomon was in Kandahar with Afghan special forces units as the city and then the country fell to the Taliban. We hear from the soldiers who fought about the realities on the ground and what the end of this 20 year war feels like for them. 

Check out more of Ben’s reporting from Kandahar and VICE News’ ongoing coverage from Afghanistan.

This episode was reported by Ben C. Solomon and Adam Desiderio and produced by Julia Nutter and Sam Eagan. 

VICE News Reports is hosted by Arielle Duhaime-Ross and produced by Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, Sophie Kazis, Jen Kinney, Janice Llamoca, Julia Nutter, and Sayre Quevedo. Our senior producers are Ashley Cleek and Adizah Eghan. Our associate producers are Steph Brown, Sam Eagan, and Adreanna Rodriguez. Sound design and music composition by Steve Bone, Pran Bandi and Kyle Murdock. Our intern is Leily Rezvani.

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