Azam Ahmed is a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Formerly based in Kabul, he has written extensively on the Afghan war. He has also covered the advances of the Islamic State in Iraq.
‘I do not do this work for the government, or the Taliban, or even the men who I collect from the battlefield and return to their loved ones. All these years I have done this for God.’
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