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Sweeping conquests test US hopes of more moderate Taliban

by Ellen KnickmeyerKathy Gannon
| August 13, 2021 12:03 AM

Sweeping Taliban conquests in Afghanistan this week are challenging the Biden administration’s hopes that a desire for international respect — and for international aid and cash — will moderate the fundamentalist militia’s worst behaviors when the U.S. ends its war there.

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