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Resurgent Taliban take provincial capital, kill Afghan govt spokesman

Asia Pacific · August 6, 2021 · 8:59 PM UTC

Taliban insurgents captured an Afghan provincial capital and killed the government's senior media officer in Kabul on Friday amid a deteriorating security situation as U.S. and other foreign troops withdraw.

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