Just over half of the Afghanistan’s populations lives in a district outside of government control, according to a new study conducted by FDD’s Long War Journal. Using the military’s official population data, LWJ assessed that 41 percent of the population resides in a district contested by the Taliban, while more than nine percent resides in a Taliban controlled district. Despite the Afghan military’s abandonment of rural areas to the Taliban, the government has yet to increase populations under its control.
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