US military stops counting how much of Afghanistan is controlled by Taliban | World News, The Indian Express

US military stops counting how much of Afghanistan is controlled by Taliban | World News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Kabul |Published: May 2, 2019 9:32:48 am

US military stops counting how much of Afghanistan is controlled by Taliban

The decision to end the assessments, which have been produced in various forms since at least 2010, was published in the latest quarterly report by the US special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.

The American military command in Afghanistan has halted regular assessments of how many people and districts the government and insurgents there control, it emerged on May 1, 2019 — eliminating what has long been an important public measure of progress in the war. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)

Written by David Zucchino