Afghanistan

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'Taliban taking over'
By Sanjay Suri

LONDON - The Taliban have regained control over the southern half of Afghanistan and their front line is advancing daily, a group closely monitoring the Afghan situation said in a report this week.

The report on the reconstruction of Afghanistan marking the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US is based on extensive field research in the critical provinces of Helmand, Kandahar, Herat and Nangarhar.

"The Taliban front line now cuts halfway through the country, encompassing all of the southern provinces," says a report by the

Senlis Council, an international policy think-tank with offices in Kabul, London, Paris and Brussels.
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Sollte ich mich irren und die Taliban sind doch wieder stärker als gedacht?!