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Hundreds of families displaced as Isis and Taliban fighting gets worse

FIERCE fighting in Afghanistan between Taliban guerillas and Isis terrorists was complicated yesterday by military plans to drive both from Nangarhar province.

Nangarhar provincial governor’s spokesman Attahullah Khogyani said an operation involving air and ground forces had begun to eliminate both insurgent groups from the area.

He said two days of fighting had displaced hundreds of families from villages in Khogyani and Sherzad districts.

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