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Taliban fighters capture Afghan city at strategic junction north of Kabul

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The Taliban seized three more provincial capitals in Afghanistan and a local army headquarters, completing their blitz across the country's northeast and pressing their offensive elsewhere, officials said on Wednesday.The insurgents now control some two-thirds of the country as the U.S. and NATO finalize their withdrawal after a decades-long war there.

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