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Kabul Falls, Afghanistan Burns

‘WAR IS OVER’

A source in Kabul told The Daily Beast that Taliban fighters recited verses from the Quran in a victory celebration as they overtook the presidential palace.

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Reuters

The Afghanistan capital city of Kabul fell to the Taliban on Sunday, just over one week after U.S. troops withdrew, underscoring one of the worst American foreign policy debacles since the Vietnam war.

Twenty years after the extremist group lost control of Afghanistan, insurgent fighters surrounded Kabul on Sunday morning and...

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