Costing America’s Afghan campaign 
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CONTROL OF DISTRICTS (as of Aug 1, 2021)

Taliban control 223
Contested 116
Government 68 

200km
125 miles
 
77
Apr 13: President Joe Biden announces withdrawal of U.S. troops starting May 1
 
Herat
Mazar-e-Sharif 
Kunduz
Lashkar Gah
Helmand province
Kabul
Jalalabad
Kandahar 
Spin Boldak


COST OF WAR
Reconstruction $132.9bn
Fighting $837.3bn
2002-21* $970.2bn

U.S. TROOP LEVELS
 
5,200  10,400 15,200 19,100 20,400 23,700 30,100 66,000 103,727 110,325 76,000 64,000

25,000 8,550 9,000 14,000 15,500 14,000 8,600 650

02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 

2,442 U.S. troops killed

*Department of Defense Cost of War Report (Fiscal years to Mar 31, 2021)
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Sources: Associated Press, Brown University, Long War Journal, SIGAR © GRAPHIC NEWS