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Afghans Form Militias and Call on Warlords to Battle Taliban
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The Taliban in 2015- the Quetta Shura, Mullah Omar, and the remaining younger Taliban inside Afghanistan
01/02/2015
Changing expectations of the Afghan people by 2015, with many Taliban leaders killed in fighting with American forces and drone strikes, aging of the Taliban leadership in Quetta, have changed the nature of the Taliban. It makes it harder to negotiate a peace agreement but also leaves a fractured Taliban with younger Taliban in Afghanistan no longer following the leadership in Quetta.
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