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Dec 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Azam Ahmed |Bryan Denton

En esta remota provincia, el comandante llevó a cabo uno de los ataques más mortíferos contra las fuerzas estadounidenses en Afganistán, una batalla campal que fue una alerta temprana de un conflicto que se desvió de manera terrible y alteró la historia de la guerra. Ahora, años después de que los estadounidenses abandonaron este valle, y todo Afganistán, el comandante sacude al hombre que localizó entre la multitud para explicarle cómo Estados Unidos perdió ambas cosas.

Dec 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | Azam Ahmed |Bryan Denton

Trump blamed Biden. Biden blamed the Afghan military. Our investigation found that the U.S. unwittingly laid the groundwork for the Taliban's victory long ago. A member of the Afghan Local Police, a militia organization formed to fight the Taliban, outside the unit's hilltop base in 2012 in Taloqa, Kunduz Province, Afghanistan. Trump blamed Biden. Biden blamed the Afghan military. Our investigation found that the U.S. unwittingly laid the groundwork for the Taliban's victory long ago.

Dec 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Azam Ahmed |Bryan Denton

"I was surprised at the amount of water they had in the area," said Darren Richardson, who had commissioned the study. "That was a significant aquifer."And yet, only a decade later, the water was growing scarce. Despite the American airstrikes and water worries, Bakwa remained a center of the drug trade. Poppy had a long shelf life once harvested. Its watering needs coincided with the spring snowmelt from the neighboring mountains. The trade could hold on, residents reasoned. But then the war ended.

Nov 9, 2024 | msn.com | Maria Abi-Habib |Bryan Denton

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Nov 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | Maria Abi-Habib |Bryan Denton

We climbed rooftops and set up machines - each the size of a refrigerator - to take samples of the smoke billowing our way. We parked outside the plant to wait for the trucks to leave, following them across the city to residential neighborhoods where they dumped their loads of acrid ash. We dug through the ashes after they were dumped and gathered samples for the lab. The noxious fumes stung our eyes and gave us crippling migraines, even while wearing N-95 face masks.