In the town of Sangin, two dozen men sat cross-legged inside a huge mud compound. Under the full moon, their black turbans cast deep shadows over their sunburned features. These were the Taliban's ...
He paid about $3,000 to the Taliban youths who helped him, plus a tax of 15 percent. Sangin District was yielding $40 million and Helmand Province was yielding $250 million in farm-gate revenues ...
We're in Sangin district in southern Afghanistan ... Many here supported the Taliban's insurgency against the former Afghan government and US-led forces that supported it, while others are ...
The Taliban have taken back the poppy fields in the Green Zone and are again besieging the Sangin district center. So what is the lesson from Sangin? When you go to war, have the proper strategy ...