‘Trust was gone’: Former Afghan official recounts his government’s collapse

“We still thought the Taliban had at least two more weeks until the U.S. presence in Kabul [ended],” Hamdullah Mohib said of the chaos that final day in the nation’s capital. | Rahmat Gul/AP Photo

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Afghanistan’s government lost trust in the United States because of the Trump administration’s negotiations with the Taliban and the Biden administration’s insistence on withdrawing its forces, a former Afghan official said Sunday in describing his government’s collapse earlier this year.

“Trust was gone. There was no trust,” Hamdullah Mohib said in describing the scene on Aug. 15, when Afghanistan’s leadership fled in a helicopter that flew at a low altitude

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