Why is the Taliban gaining so much territory in Afghanistan?

The US Institute for Peace [USIP] is a federal agency in Washington, DC. It has a massive office building on Constitution Ave and a $55 million yearly budget. It is supposed to advise the Pentagon and […]

Abdul Rashid Dostum was the leader of Junbish, a pan-Turkic ex-communist party. In the 1980s he commanded a Soviet sponsored Uzbek pro-Communist militia. After the Soviet Union left, he battled Tajik militia for control of […]

The Taliban took three more provincial capitals on August 12th, giving them control of twelve out of thirty-four total. Many other capital cities are under siege. Most of the southwest and Northeast are under Taliban […]