The most recent casualties in the GWOT took place as recently as three weeks ago in Afghanistan, and included a contractor. . “That speaks to the complexities of this war and the fact that we are still losing American lives, in and out of uniform,” said Rodriguez. ..…

In the late nineties, consulting company enlisted Khalilzad to do cost-benefit analysis of building oil and gas pipelines across Afghanistan for Unocal, American oil company that was attempting to make deal with Taliban. ..…

What more did you need to know once Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted that a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, claimed by the Taliban, was Iranian-inspired or plotted, one “in a series of attacks instigated by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its surrogates against American and allied..…