On July 21, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley said that Taliban militants now control about half of the country's District centers, reports Reuters. "Strategic momentum appears to be sort of with the Taliban," General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. Milley said more than 200 of the 419 district centers were under Taliban control. Last month, he had said the Taliban controlled 81 District centers in Afghanistan.