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Mullah's rise charts Taliban's long road back to power

by Kathy Gannon
| August 20, 2021 12:03 AM

The Taliban's top political leader, who made a triumphal return to Afghanistan this week, battled the U.S. and its allies for decades but then signed a landmark peace agreement with the Trump administration.

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