Taliban fighters
Amid a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, strategic coordination with Uzbeks needed
Both Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are secular democratic Republics and are ideologically strongly opposed to the Taliban.
Taliban take 170 hostages, forces rescue all but 21
Afghan forces responded quickly and were able to free 149 people and kill at least seven Taliban fighters, he said.
Poverty drives child soldiers into Afghanistan’s endless war
Afghan forces freed almost 40 children during multiple raids near the Pakistani border.
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