For two years, settlers attacked Rezeq Abu Naim’s land in the Israeli-occupied West Bank at all hours and in all manners. After another violent incursion over the weekend, his family abandoned their home.
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.
Funding its war against the United States, the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake.
The end of the war in Afghanistan and the fall of its government allowed us to reach previously inaccessible records, places and people, documenting the bloody history of a key American ally.