For 18 years, America fought the Taliban on land and from the air. Americans were to discover that the Taliban are tenacious fighters for whom warfare has become a way of life.
Afghanistan is a central Asian country with landmass of 652,864 km2 and a population of 32.9 million. It is a poor country with a GDP of $21.7 billion and a per capita income of $493. It is a Muslim country, even if a rather heterogenous one. There are 14 ethnic ethnic communities -- Pashtuns, Tajik
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