AFGHANISTAN.

• Position: IN THE NEWS 2018: Asia & Oceania - US-Afghanistan relations

U.S. troops have been fighting a war in Afghanistan since 2001, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the U.S. But after 16 years, the country remains unstable. The Taliban, a radical Islamist group ousted from power early in the war, continue to battle U.S. and Afghan forces and lately have seized the...