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Episode 7: There are still some twenty terrorist groups fighting the Afghan government. What happens now?
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Episode 7: There are still some twenty terrorist groups fighting the Afghan government. What happens now?

The Afghanistan/Pakistan region remains fertile ground for extremists
Hollie McKay
Aug 04, 2021
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“Americans never quit.”

— Douglas MacArthur

4 August 2021

As the U.S. military prepares to make its final withdrawal from Afghanistan over the coming weeks, much attention has been directed toward the Taliban’s brutal stampede to take over the blood-spattered country.

However, they are not the only brutal insurgency with a foothold in the fragile region. W…

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