MUSA QALA, Afghanistan — Taliban rule brought an end last August to America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, but for the many here who suffered unimaginable loss during those decades, ...

The battle to own Musa Qala is expected to be intense, because of its value to both sides. For the Taliban, there’s major symbolic value in being able to hold a town in a country ostensibly ...

Matt Dupee takes a look at the Taliban takeover Musa Qala in Afghanistan one year on. Matt writes about the Afghanistan conflict at Afgha.com.. It has been over 10 months since Taliban forces staged a ...

A decades-long fight over land has been reinvigorated as Taliban leaders look to reward their fighters with property, even if that means evicting others. Sheep herders in Musa Qala, Helmand ...

Afghan men in the town of Musa Qala shortly after the town was retaken by coalition troops in December (AFP) The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, William Wood, on January 13 met with Mullah Abdul ...

A US Marine, an interpreter, and an Afghan soldier talk to a village elder in the town of Karamanda in Musa Qala in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Photo by Bill Ardolino for The Long War Journal. Bill ...

Musa Qala became a centre for mass production of opium with much of the proceeds going towards funding the insurgency. It was recaptured at the end of 2007 in an operation by British, US and ...

MUSA QALA, Afghanistan -- Chinook helicopters dropped Capt. Don Canterna's company of soldiers on the dusty outskirts of Musa Qala as evening fell. Loaded down with weapons, food and water, ...

Mullah Abdul Salaam (RFE/RL) From his hilltop headquarters in the southern Afghan town of Musa Qala, former Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Salaam has a sweeping view over dusty flatlands in ...