Kabul
Place
Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, located in the country’s east-central highlands.
11 episodes featuring Kabul
The Shawn Ryan Show
McAfee confidant traces war, addiction and spiritual redemption
Jimmy Watson’s account connects the violence of military contracting and private enforcement to McAfee’s volatile world, recovery, and a new faith-driven purpose.
Sep 28, 2026 · 4h 52m
The President's Daily Brief
Iran Tests U.S. Pressure as Ukraine Seeks Winter Weapons
The episode connects Iran’s sanctions-driven return to negotiations with urgent efforts to manage the Russia-Ukraine war and rising regional tensions.
Sep 24, 2026 · 21 min
The Shawn Ryan Show
SERE specialist connects survival training to drone warfare
The conversation links hard-won survival skills with the vulnerabilities exposed by modern war, infrastructure failure, and social collapse.
Sep 24, 2026 · 3h 6m
The NPR Politics Podcast
How 9/11 remade American power and public trust
The episode traces how emergency measures adopted after 9/11 became a lasting architecture of war, surveillance, secrecy, and domestic suspicion.
Sep 11, 2026 · 36 min
Pod Save the World
Europe’s far right tests democratic resilience
The episode connects electoral gains, nationalist revisionism and weakened institutions to a broader crisis of accountability at home and abroad.
Sep 9, 2026 · 1h 38m
Global News Podcast
AI researchers warn regulation is lagging behind autonomous systems
The episode connects existential AI risk to weak regulation and geopolitical competition, while showing how global news turns abstract threats into immediate policy questions.
Sep 9, 2026 · 34 min
The President's Daily Brief
Economic pressure strains Iran as intelligence rivals clash
The episode connects weakening pressure points in Iran with volatile security conflicts spanning Ukraine, Pakistan, and Syria.
Sep 4, 2026 · 23 min
The NPR Politics Podcast
Trump’s Venezuela strategy tests the limits of American power
The episode connects U.S. control of Venezuelan oil, disputed military strikes, and Iran’s escalating conflict to the risks of intervention without a clear endgame.
Sep 4, 2026 · 27 min
Global News Podcast
Afghan returns expose a widening humanitarian crisis
Millions of Afghans are being pushed back into a country the UN warns cannot absorb them, amid security threats and Taliban isolation.
Sep 1, 2026 · 30 min
The President's Daily Brief
Taliban control faces pressure from rivals and regional conflict
Afghanistan’s instability could deepen as armed resistance, tensions with Pakistan, and the Islamic State challenge the Taliban’s hold on power.
Aug 21, 2026 · 15 min
The Shawn Ryan Show
SEAL operator turns combat trauma into a mission of recovery
Alex West connects elite military service, combat loss, suicidal crisis, and sobriety to his later work helping veterans and first responders heal.
Aug 20, 2026 · 4h 35m