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With the withdrawal from Afghanistan now formally underway, the Pentagon says they are concerned about attacks from the Taliban on U.S. and coalition forces as they depart from the region. “We have to assume that this drawdown will be opposed,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said this week. The military …

In the past 10 years, an estimated 16,000 civilians have died in Afghanistan, according to the United Nations. The United States killed 30 more Wednesday when a drone strike intended for an Islamic State stronghold instead struck a group of farmers resting after a day picking pine nuts. In addition …