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The Taliban has captured police headquarters in Lashkar Gah, a provincial capital in southern Afghanistan.

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All local gov’t officials flee to Kabul as Taliban fighters capture the city of Ghazni, the 10th provincial capital they have seized in several days.

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Gov't source confirms to Al Jazeera that the Afghan gov't has offered the Taliban a share in power so long as the rising violence comes to a halt.

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Pakistan is only useful to the US in the 'mess' it is leaving behind in Afghanistan, says PM Imran Khan aje.io/86sgx9

The governor of Ghazni has been arrested after fleeing once the province fell to the Taliban.

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Six important figures lead the Taliban movement that has been fighting the Western-backed Afghan gov't since 2001.

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France confirms pause on Afghan refugee deportation as Taliban make gains, joining Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Norway aje.io/jauqcw

'Intense fighting' raging between Afghan forces and Taliban fighters in Kandahar city as the armed group continues to make more gains.

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US renews call for Americans to leave Afghanistan ‘immediately’ amid the Taliban’s advance against gov't forces throughout the country aje.io/zqcqzt

Herat, Afghanistan’s third-largest city, has fallen to the Taliban, becoming the 11th provincial capital to be captured by the armed group in recent days.

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The US is sending additional troops into Afghanistan to help evacuate some personnel from the embassy in Kabul aje.io/zqcqzt