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How Taliban Expanded in Afghanistan During America's Longest War | WSJ

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It all started in 1979, when the Soviet Union, in the middle of the Cold War, invaded Afghanistan to place a related communist government in Kabul.

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Until 2001. The 9/11 attack in New York, orchestrated from Afghanistan, pushed the US to war in the Central Asian country. Twenty years later, with the Americans in retreat, the war has neither stopped nor slowed down. The start of the US invasion meant, in a few weeks, the fall of the Taliban government in Kabul. Now, the jihadist group is again closer to power than ever

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Within its territory, groups such as Al Qaeda and the Islamic State have moved and proliferated (the latter has on some occasions fought against the Taliban)

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Within its territory, groups such as Al Qaeda and the Islamic State have moved and proliferated (the latter has on some occasions fought against the Taliban), and this has been a key point in the negotiations with the United States:

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Afghanistan is a failed country and a divided state. There are currently two parallel governments in the Central Asian country: the national one, in Kabul, the capital, and that of the Taliban. Insurgents control most of the country's territory, especially rural areas, and have about 13 million people living under their yoke.

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These 42 years of perpetual war have not only left a divided country - which is still at war - and several million refugees. They have also left countless deaths: in the first war, that of the Soviets, estimates say that between 500,000 people and one million died from the conflict.