The Taliban have retaken 12 provincial Afghanistan capitals following the U.S. military’s secretive overnight withdrawal from Bagram Airfield earlier this year (U.S. officials didn’t even notify the base’s new Afghan commander before silently slipping away, leaving the official to discover for himself, nearly two hours after the fact, that the Americans had Irish Goodbye’d after nearly 20 years of occupation).

Since the May 1 departure, the Taliban have captured 69 of the country’s 407 districts, including ones American and Afghan officials previously considered impenetrable government strongholds against the terrorist group. In total, the Taliban hold 142 districts and are fighting for control of roughly 170 more.