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The Taliban Won Afghanistan. Now They're Fighting Each Other
Paweł Wójcik27 August 2026
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- The Taliban's centralization of power around Pashtun leadership is fueling internal ethnic fractures that threaten to split the movement.
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The Taliban won Afghanistan, but victory has turned inward. Inside the infighting now gripping the country's fighters across the warzone.
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