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  Explainer: How dangerous is Afghanistan’s Islamic State?

  World | August 27, 2021 8:28 IST

  US President Joe Biden cited the threat of Islamic State attacks in sticking with a Tuesday deadline for pulling US forces out of Afghanistan. 

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  Afghanistan: Taliban capture Ghazni, city just 150 km away from capital Kabul

  World | August 12, 2021 12:24 IST

  "The Taliban took control of the key areas of the city- the governor's office, the police headquarters and the prison," AFP reported quoting Nasir Ahmad Faqiri, head of the provincial council. 

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  2 dead in Taliban bombing near US airbase in Afghanistan

  World | December 12, 2019 7:57 IST

  A car bombing near a military base in Afghanistan killed two civilians, wounded over 70, including some soldiers, and badly damaged an under-construction hospital near the largest United States defense base in Bagram of the war-torn country, officials said.

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  Pak launches military crackdown in Punjab after Lahore blast

  World | March 28, 2016 19:15 IST

  Pakistan on Monday launched a massive military operation in Punjab province in the wake of the deadly Taliban suicide bombing in Lahore, conducting raids and making several arrests

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  US troops killed near Bagram, Taliban insurgency intensifies

  World | December 22, 2015 8:32 IST

  Kabul: A suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden motorcycle into a joint NATO-Afghan patrol Monday, killing six American troops in the deadliest attack on international forces since August. Two U.S. troops and an Afghan were wounded.The

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  Taliban Bomber Kills Nine At Afghan Nato Base

  World | February 27, 2012 18:16 IST

  Kabul, Feb 27: A Taliban suicide car bomber targeting Nato troops at an airport in eastern Afghanistan killed nine people on Monday, on a seventh day of violence over the burning of the Koran at