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Taliban free hundreds of prisoners in Afghanistan prison raid

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Taliban fighters attacked a jail in Ghazni, 120 km southwest of Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul early Monday morning, freeing hundreds of prisoners, officials told Reuters.

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