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Taliban take Afghanistan's third-largest city in onslaught

| August 12, 2021 12:10 PM

By TAMEEM AKHGAR, RAHIM FAIEZ and JON GAMBRELL

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban captured Afghanistan's third-largest city and a strategic provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, further squeezing the country's embattled government just weeks before the end of the American military mission there....

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