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10 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
BREAKING: Taliban seizes seventh provincial Afghan capital in five days aje.io/vaqmqx
Taliban overruns Farah city in southwest Afghanistan, the seventh provincial capital to fall to the group in under a week aje.io/vaqmqx
UPDATE: The Taliban has captured another city in Afghanistan, taking the number of provincial capitals the group has seized since Friday to eight aje.io/vaqmqx
Taliban overruns cities of Farah and Pul-e-Khumri in fresh setbacks for Afghanistan’s government aje.io/vaqmqx

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A ninth Afghan city has fallen to the Taliban.

The armed group has now taken more than a quarter of Afghanistan’s provincial capitals in less than a week.

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Badakhshan province’s capital Faizabad is the latest to be captured by the Taliban since Friday.

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Since the US and NATO forces announced their withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of presence, the Taliban has moved swiftly, capturing a large part of the country’s territory.

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Taliban fighters took control of another provincial capital, the sixth to fall in the past four days, say officials.

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“It’s a very significant victory for the Taliban."

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