Taliban face rare public uprising against their rule in northeastern Afghanistan
Voice of America
FILE - An armed Afghan policemen destroys an opium poppy field in Noorgal, Kunar province, east of Kabul, April 13, 2013. FILE - Internally displaced children look with surprise at an apple that their mother brought home after begging, in a camp on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb 2, 2023.
Afghanistan’s hardline Taliban leaders have threatened to militarily suppress unprecedented violent public protests in a northeastern border region against a nationwide ban on poppy cultivation.
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