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The Taliban are fighting to take
of Afghanistan for the first
since 2001. This is when US-led forces defeated them after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. The USA and other
powers have spent 20 years trying to train an Afghan army and police
to keep the country
. However, the Taliban never gave up their
to take the country back. The USA and the UK are
pulling their forces out of Afghanistan. They are ending their time in the country after 20 years. The UN's special envoy for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, said the war there had entered "a new,
, and more destructive
". She warned that the country was heading for "
".
