Taliban threaten Afghan elections
KANDAHAR (AFP) – The Taliban on Sunday threatened for the first time to attack Afghan polling stations, escalating their bid to derail key elections this week after striking NATO in the heart of Kabul.
The threat was made in leaflets, pinned up and dropped in villages in the south, and…
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