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      <text>The Taliban captures the border town of Islam Qala, Afghanistan's biggest border crossing with Iran. </text>
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      <text>Taliban captures the border town of Islam Qala, Afghanistan's biggest border crossing with Iran. </text>
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    <text>The Taliban captures the border town of Islam Qala, Herat, Afghanistan's biggest border crossing with Iran. </text>
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      <text>Mullah Mannan Niazi, the deputy leader of a splinter group of Taliban led by Mullah Rasul, is wounded after attackers targeted the area where he lived in Herat Province. Mullah Niazi is in a coma and three of his men were killed and four others were wounded in the clash. </text>
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      <text>Mullah Mannan Niazi, the deputy leader of a splinter group of Taliban led by Mullah Rasul, was wounded after attackers targeted the area where he lived in Herat Province. Mullah Niazi is in a coma and three of his men were killed and four others were wounded in the clash. </text>
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    <text>Mullah Mannan Niazi, the deputy leader of a splinter group of Taliban led by Mullah Rasul, is wounded and left in a coma after attackers target the area where he lived in Herat Province. Three of Niazi's men are also killed and four others wounded during the clash. </text>
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      <text>A car bomb near a police station in Herat province, Afghanistan, kills at least eight people and wounds more than 50 others. </text>
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    <text>A car bombing near a police station in Herat Province kills at least eight people and wounds more than 50 others. </text>
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      <text>Three Afghan soldiers are killed and four others wounded in an attack on their vehicle by unidentified gunmen in Herat Province. </text>
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      <text>Three Afghan soldiers are killed and four others wounded in an attack by unidentified gunmen on their vehicle in Herat Province. </text>
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    <text>Three Afghan soldiers are killed and four others are wounded in an attack on their vehicle by unidentified gunmen in Herat Province. </text>
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      <text>Three policeman are killed and two others are injured after a bomb placed on a motorbike explodes near a police checkpoint in Herat, Herat Province. </text>
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    <text>Three policemen are killed and two others are injured after a bomb on a motorbike explodes near a police checkpoint in Herat, Herat Province. </text>
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      <text>A bomb kills at least five people and injures another nine in Grishk District, Helmand Province. </text>
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      <text>A bomb kills at least 5 people and injures another 9 in Grishk District, Helmand Province. </text>
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      <text>A bus hits a roadside bomb, killing 2 people and injures 10 others in Shindand District, Herat Province. </text>
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      <text>A bus hit a bomb. The attack left 2 people dead and 10 others were injured in Shindand District, Herat Province. </text>
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    <text>A bus hits a roadside bomb, killing two people and injuring another ten in Shindand District, Herat Province. </text>
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      <text>During clashes between the Islamist group and security forces in Faryab, 22 Taliban militants are killed and 24 others injured. </text>
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    <text>During clashes between the Taliban and security forces in Faryab, 22 militants are killed and 24 others are injured. </text>
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    <text>Afghan general and Kandahar police chief Abdul Raziq Achakzai is assassinated by one of his bodyguards during a high-level meeting inside the governor's compound with U.S. general Austin S. Miller. Gen. Miller escaped unharmed according to officials while the governor was critically injured. The Taliban claims responsibility. </text>
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    <text>Afghan authorities say that, in a joint ground and air operation on Saturday night, Afghan and foreign forces killed the head of ISIL-K, along with ten other members of the militant group. </text>
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    <text>Mohammad Musa Rasouli, the police chief of Afghanistan's Nimroz Province, is killed by a roadside bomb while returning home from Herat Province. </text>
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  <subtext>After seizing Islam Qala on Iran frontier, Taliban insurgents capture crucial Torghundi border port on Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border as government says efforts to recapture the crossings are ongoing.</subtext>
  <text>Taliban insurgents capture the border town of Torghundi on the border with Turkmenistan as Afghan security forces collapse in Herat. The Interior Ministry says troops had been &quot;temporarily relocated&quot; and efforts were underway to recapture the border crossing. </text>
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