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‘Lion of Herat’ silent as his Afghan city falls to Taliban
HERAT: A month ago, one of Afghanistan’s most famous warlords vowed to defend his city from the Taliban as he called for locals to join the fight.Ismail Khan, 75, has for decades been a force in Herat, Afghanistan’s third biggest city that is of huge strategic value partly due to its close proximity to Iran.But on Friday, after government forces had left the city and Taliban militants had taken control without a battle, the “Lion of Herat” was nowhere to be seen.Hours after seizing the city, a group of insurgents pulled down an Afghan flag from a police station as cars and bicycles passed in seemingly normal traffic.Others stood on the bonnet of a humvee vehicle that had been abandoned by th

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