Or, you know, the Intercept article is primarily reporting on the current state of affairs (under Trump's watch), and specifically on a spike in civilian deaths in 2019. Not every article has to cover the entire war.

> The period in which The Intercept documented the escalation of violence in Wardak falls neatly between the first round of formal U.S.-Taliban talks in late 2018 and the signing of the Doha agreement early this year. The rate of 01 night raids, and the number of civilians killed as a result, fell dramatically last winter and stopped almost entirely this spring.