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Taliban enter Kabul, say they don't plan to take it by force

by Ahmad SeirJon Gambrell
| August 15, 2021 1:27 AM

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday while panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy as the militants' further tightened their grip on the country.

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