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Threat Matrix: Taliban controls or contests 70 districts in Afghanistan
The Taliban now controls 35 of Afghanistan’s 398 districts and contests another 35, according to information compiled by The Long War Journal. The data was used by The New York Times to create a map that depicts the Taliban’s reach in Afghanistan. The map is reproduced above. The Long War Journal‘s original map, as well as our methodology for labeling a district controlled or contested, can be viewed here.
We believe that the Taliban either controls or contests far more districts than are listed in the maps. From The New York Times report accompanying the map:
WNU Editor: And another district has fallen .... Another Afghan district falls to the Taliban (Threat Matrix).
2 comments:
The LWJ has excellent articles on how the Taliban take control of a District,
They attack a district and hold for a while, retreat from the ANA and Militia's,
The brutality and criminality of the ANA and the Militia's compared to when the Talib controlled the area, pulls the Tribal Elders and the local population on to the Talib side.
When the Militia's and ANA deploy to the next "hot spot", the Talib just walk on in.
They are either controlling or closing all the main roads, even the ones over border into Pakistan. Slowly isolate the cities.
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