From insurgency to insurrection

摘要

At a taxi-rank on the southern edge of Kabul, drivers lounged against dusty car bonnets and held a grim conversation. Business was bad, they said. The road they travelled, shuttling between Afghanistan's capital and the violent eastern provinces of Logar and Paktia, was often unusable. Between 4pm and 4am, Islamist militants preyed upon it. At other times, American troops closed it.