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| Taliban Upsurge Draws Afghan City Dwellers into Battle |
| 2015-10-26 |
| [AnNahar] Draped in a bandolier of shotgun cartridges, an Afghan cafe owner was forced to cobble together a militia of neighborhood fruit vendors and vegetable hawkers when the Taliban threatened his city, demonstrating an alarming new push into urban areas. Emboldened by their recent three-day occupation of Kunduz, the first Afghan city to fall to the Taliban since their ouster from power in 2001, Lions of Islam have made brazen attempts to overrun several other provincial centers, from Ghazni in the south to Maimana in the north. Seen previously as a rural bad boy movement capable only of hit-and-run attacks on cities, the Taliban's aggressive campaign to capture major urban areas reveals a highly potent insurgency that poses a crucial test for Afghanistan's overstretched NATO |
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