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Thousands attend the funeral of a Taliban minister killed by an Islamic State suicide bomber
Armed men guarded the coffin, which was draped in the Taliban flag, and loudspeakers broadcast sermons and eulogies. Local and international media were invited to cover the funeral in Garda Serai ...
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Inside Kabul’s Green Zone, Taliban Fighters Guard Abandoned Embassies
A Taliban flag covers the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul’s Green Zone, which was once the heart of foreign operations in Afghanistan. WSJ’s Yaroslav Trofimov visits abandoned embassies now ...
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Taliban raises its flag above presidential palace in Kabul
CAIRO, August 16. /TASS/. The radical Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia) has hoisted its flag above the presidential palace in Kabul late on Sunday, the Al Jazeera television reported.