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Taliban seizes Jalalabad, one of biggest cities of Afghanistan: Reports

| @indiablooms | Aug 15, 2021, at 04:11 pm

Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: The Taliban Islamist movement has captured the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan, the capital of the Nangarhar province and one of the biggest cities in the country, the Associated Press news agency reported on Sunday, citing a regional lawmaker.

A local resident told the Agence France-Presse news agency that the city was seized without any resistance.

After the fall of Jalalabad, Kabul remains the only big city in Afghanistan controlled by the internationally recognized government.
 

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