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#BREAKING Taliban warn Turkey against extending troop presence in Afghanistan: statement

#BREAKING Taliban do not want fighting inside Afghan cities: senior leader

#UPDATES Taliban warn Turkey against extending its troop presence in Afghanistan when US-led forces leave, insisting the decision is "reprehensible", while a senior leader says the Taliban do not want to engage in fighting inside Afghanistan's cities

#UPDATE The strategy of not fighting inside cities is one well-worn by the Taliban -- particularly during their first rise to power in the 1990s -- cutting off towns and district centres and getting elders to negotiate a surrender
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#BREAKING Blast kills four civilians in Afghan capital: police

#UPDATE An explosion Tuesday in the Afghan capital Kabul killed four civilians and wounded five others, police said

#BREAKING France calls on all its citizens in Afghanistan to leave over security concerns: embassy

#UPDATE France on Tuesday called on all its citizens in #Afghanistan to leave the country over security concerns, the French embassy in Kabul said, as the Taliban pressed on with a blistering offensive while foreign forces completed their withdrawal u.afp.com/UbYh