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4 Reasons A Potential Taliban Takeover In Afghanistan Matters To The World

Aug 15, 2021 View Original Article
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    Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    -6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    14% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : But in recent weeks, top Taliban leaders have been on a whirlwind international tour, visiting Iran, Russia and China.
44% : Ghulam Isaczai, Afghanistan's representative to the United Nations, sounded a similar warning last week, saying that in "deliberate acts of barbarism, the Taliban are assisted by transnational terrorist networks."
42% : The Taliban have gained a reputation, after all, for brutality and enforcement of a harsh brand of Islamic justice in the five years they ruled until being toppled by invading U.S.-led forces in 2001.

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