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Taliban gain control of Panjshir Valley but are yet to form an official government

PBS, 07 Sep 2021
A senior State Department official confirmed the United States evacuated four Americans from Afghanistan and relocated them to a nearby country in the first known U.S. overland extraction since the August 31 withdrawal deadline. As Ali Rogin reports, that comes as Taliban fighters claim to have seized the country's last pocket of resistance.

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