Afghanistan's Seasonal Disorder.

The article reports that nearly 100 militants, soldiers and civilians died in battles in Kandahar and Helmand provinces of Afghanistan last week, while a suicide attack in the city of Herat killed a U.S. counternarcotics contractor. Colonel Mohammed Hussain, an Afghan Interior Ministry representative in Kandahar, said that civilians are willing to cooperate with the Taliban because the government is not doing anything for them.