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the militants had already captured vast swathes of rural territory, now they re trying to take their first city and earlier this evening, they made their way to the very centre of lashkar gah before being pushed back by afghan special forces. in the past few hours, a number of air strikes have been launched against taliban positions there, too. but fighting has been taking place elsewhere as well, around the western city of herat and kandahar in the south. caught in the middle of this, of course, ordinary afghan families. tens of thousands of people have had to flee their homes over the last few weeks. and the international military mission here is going to formally come to an end by september. with the taliban emboldened, peace talks stalled, everyone s worried that in the coming weeks, the violence is going to get even worse. let s stick with this story for the time being. husain haqqani is former ambassador of pakistan to the united states, now with the hudson institute. he joins us

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