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The Taliban and Isis are in a battle for control

The Taliban and Isis are in a battle for control

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

  Kabul

 
An insurgency has once again started in Afghanistan – and this time, the Taliban is the target. Since the Americans left Kabul last year, high-profile Taliban figures have been the victims of 220 remote explosive and suicide attacks, one of which took place the day before I arrived in the capital in October.

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