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Turkmenistan border guards skirmish with Afghan Taliban fighters along border: Report

Turkmenistan border guards skirmished with Taliban fighters along the Afghan border, according to local media reports. Details of the reported clashes in Afghanistan’s Jawzjan province early on January 3 remain unclear. Helal Balkhi, the head of the Taliban’s provincial department of information, told Afghan news website Hasht-e Subh that Turkmen border guards had killed a […]

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Sheberghan: Second Afghan provincial capital falls to the Taliban

The Taliban captured the city of Sheberghan, the second Afghan provincial capital to fall to the armed group in less than 24 hours, the city’s deputy governor said. Qader Malia, the deputy governor of Sheberghan in Jawzjan province, said on Saturday that government forces and officials had retreated to the airport on the outskirts of […]