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As this report was being filed, Kabul was in imminent danger of falling to Taliban. TOI+ maps how Taliban lost territory to the US-led forces and how it clawed back

From controlling a very large part of the country in the 90s to being pushed to the fringes as US came looking for Osama bin Laden to now sitting just outside Kabul and watch US and Britain scamper to evacuate its citizens, the Taliban have come a long way. Plotting the Taliban’s advances and retreats in Afghanistan is like playing a game of ‘colour-the-map’. The tiny boxes, which represent the mountainous country’s regions and districts, have changed colour often depending on who was in control and when — the Taliban, the Afghan government or the Northern Alliance. Here’s the Taliban’s story of winning and losing territories in the past 20 years
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