Taliban

US Marines are back in Afghanistan’s Helmand province for the first time since 2014

April 29, 2017Conflict

Helmand for years was the centerpiece of the US and British military intervention in Afghanistan — only for it to slip deeper into a quagmire of instability.

Afghan boys look a damaged window of a shop after a suicide attack in west of Kabul, Afghanistan May 25, 2016.

The new Taliban leader has more experience issuing fatwas than negotiating peace

May 25, 2016Conflict

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