As President Obama met Wednesday with top advisors working on a new strategy for Afghanistan, the war is passing a milestone.
It’s 8 years old and the nation where the 9/11 attacks were launched is still largely in anti American hands.
In eastern Afghanistan Wednesday, Taliban forces claim they’ve raised their flag.
The Taliban not only killed 8 U.S. soldiers in last weekend’s fire fight, they drove coalition forces out of their region, for now.
It’s a symbol of the setbacks the U.S. has suffered in the past 8 years.
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