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Helicopters land at US Embassy in Kabul amid Taliban advance

by Ahmad SeirJon Gambrell
| August 14, 2021 11:30 PM

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban on Sunday seized the last major city outside of Kabul held by the country's increasingly isolated central government, cutting off the capital to the east as helicopters began landing at the U.S. Embassy there.

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