KABUL, Afghanistan — It seemed the perfect vantage point for the Marines: a 30-foot-high dirt pile overlooking the low-lying poppy fields of Helmand Province....
Andrew Rouser, one of the first Marines assigned to the outpost, simply called it “ the Rock.” But before the Marines destroyed what they believed to be a Taliban defensive position on the mound with a demolition charge, Lance Cpl....
Akhundzada is infamous for legalizing poppy cultivation for the area in 1981( now the primary driver
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