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      <text>The Pakistani military and Afghan military exchange fire along their border with Pakistani artillery targeting several Taliban outposts in Helmand Province, Kandahar Province and Zabul Province. Both sides accuse the other of instigating the clashes. </text>
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      <text>The Pakistan Armed Forces and Afghan Armed Forces exchange fire along their border with Pakistani artillery targeting several Taliban outposts in Helmand Province, Kandahar Province and Zabul Province. Both sides accuse the other of instigating the clashes. </text>
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    <text>The Afghan military and Pakistani military exchange fire along their border, with Pakistani artillery targeting several Taliban outposts in the Helmand, Kandahar, and Zabul provinces. Both sides accuse the other of instigating the clashes. </text>
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    <text>The Afghanistan Freedom Front claims that its fighters killed three Taliban soldiers and wounded two more in a rocket attack in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. </text>
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    <text>The Afghanistan Freedom Front claims responsibility for a attack on a Taliban convoy in the Afghanistan province of Takhar, killing three people and injuring two. </text>
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      <text>The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province and his driver are killed and six civilians are injured when a suicide car bomber rams their vehicle in Fayzabad. </text>
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      <text>The governor of Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province and his driver are killed, while six civilians are injured when a suicide car bomber rams into his vehicle. </text>
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    <text>The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province and his driver are killed and six civilians injured when a suicide car bomber rams their vehicle in Fayzabad. </text>
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      <text>Two people are killed and three others are injured when an avalanche hits a village in Raghistan District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. </text>
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    <text>Two people are killed and three others are injured by an avalanche in Raghistan District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. </text>
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      <text>The Taliban captures the ninth provincial capital in six days, seizing Fayzabad, the capital of Badakhshan Province, amid a rapid advance in northern Afghanistan. The capture came as President Ashraf Ghani appeals to local warlords to confront and fight the Taliban. The jihadist group also took control of Kunduz Airport, after hundreds of Afghan National Security Forces personnel in the area surrendered with all of their military equipment. </text>
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      <text>The Taliban captures the ninth provincial capital in six days, seizing Fayzabad, capital of Badakhshan Province amid a speedy advance in the north. The capture came as President Ashraf Ghani appeals to local warlords to confront and fight the Taliban. The jihadist group also took control of Kunduz Airport, after hundreds of Afghan National Security Forces personnel in the area surrendered with all their military equipment. </text>
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      <text>The Taliban captures the eighth provincial capital in days, seizing Faizabad, capital of Badakhshan Province amid a speedy advance in the north. The capture came as President Ghani appeals to local warlords to confront and fight the Taliban. </text>
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    <text>The Taliban captures its ninth provincial capital in six days, seizing Fayzabad, the capital of Badakhshan Province, amid a rapid advance in northern Afghanistan. The capture comes as President Ashraf Ghani appeals to local warlords to confront and fight the Taliban. The jihadist group also takes control of Kunduz Airport, after hundreds of Afghan National Security Forces personnel in the area surrender with all of their military equipment. </text>
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    <text>Thousands of people flee the northern Afghan city of Kunduz as heavy fighting between government forces and Taliban insurgents nears the city. Heavy clashes are also reported in Kandahar and Baghlan Provinces. </text>
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    <text>Protesters in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan have called for the resignation of the governor after five protesters were killed and over 41 wounded in a clash with security forces. The protesters were demonstrating against the lack of regional security, the lack of electricity, and the lack of running water in their homes. The protesters claim the demonstration was non-violent until the arrival of security forces, while the government claims they attacked the governor's compound and the tax office. </text>
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    <text>Four aid workers kidnapped by Taliban insurgents in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan on May 22 are rescued by ISAF forces. </text>
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    <text>The death toll from a series of avalanches in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province rises to 50. </text>
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  <text>A gold mine collapse in a remote area of the Shahri Buzurg District of Badakhshan province, Afghanistan kills five people including two children. </text>
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