Ghulam Nabi has a problem: for the past year he has worked with US soldiers to improve livelihoods and security in his district of Afghanistan. Now he worries they will leave. Eight years after US-led troops ousted the Taliban regime, President Barack Obama is hurling 30,000 reinforcements into battle. But his strategy for bringing peace also enshrines July 2011 ...

Ghulam Nabi has a problem: for the past year he has worked with US soldiers to improve livelihoods and security in his district of Afghanistan. Now he worries they will leave. Eight years after US-led troops ousted the Taliban regime, President Barack Obama is hurling 30,000 reinforcements into battle. But his strategy for bringing peace also enshrines July 2011 ...