by Jason Motlagh The $300 million Kabul-Kandahar road was meant to be a symbol of the new Afghanistan. Today it reveals everything that has gone wrong in America’s longest war. Now in its 20th year, the U.S. military’s war in Afghanistan has long faded from global headlines. But...
When Your Safety Becomes My Danger (Ep. 432) September 23, 2020 @ 11:00pm The families of U.S. troops killed and wounded in Afghanistan are suing several companies that did reconstruction there. Why? These companies, they say, paid the Taliban protection money, which gave them the funding —...
By Erik Larson | Bloomberg Families of almost 150 U.S. service members and civilians who were killed or wounded in terror attacks in Afghanistan sued a group of Western contractors involved in the nation’s reconstruction for allegedly bribing the Taliban for protection for years. The alleged payments ultimately...
By Kevin Breuninger and Lauren Hirsch | CNBC KEY POINTS U.S. and international companies helped finance a “Taliban-led terrorist insurgency” in Afghanistan that killed or hurt American service members and civilians, according to a new lawsuit filed Friday. The suit alleges that the contractors made protection...
By David Shortell, CNN In this June 6, 2019, file photo, a US military Chinook helicopter lands in a field outside the governor's palace during a visit by the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan. (CNN)Family members of US service members who were killed or wounded in...
By Adam Shaw | Fox News Families of more than 140 U.S. service members and contractors killed or wounded in Afghanistan are suing U.S. and international contractors, alleging that those companies paid the Taliban for security services -- giving the group money that later funded deadly attacks on U.S. troops. The lawsuit, filed Friday by...