U.S. military no longer counts Afghanistan's land controlled by Taliban
WASHINGTON, May 1 (Xinhua): U.S. media reported on Wednesday that the U.S. military has stopped counting the land in Afghanistan still controlled by Taliban militants.
According to a report of The New York Times, the U.S. military command in Afghanistan "has halted regular assessments of how many people and districts the government and insurgents there control."
The report quoted the military as saying that the assessments had "limited decision-making value" for commanders.