Why is the Taliban gaining so much territory in Afghanistan?

For weeks, there have been allegations that WhatsApp is one of the Taliban’s leading communication tools to coordinate their rapid takeover of Afghanistan. The Taliban even published WhatsApp accounts for police and the Afghan military to request to surrender. […]

On October 8th, a suicide bomber detonated himself in a packed Shiite mosque outside of Kunduz. ISIS claimed responsibility. Afghan media reported that 46 people died at the scene, and nearly 150 other people were […]