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Afghan security officials patrol during an operation against suspected militants in Nad-e-Ali district of restive Helmand, Afghanistan, 16 May 2019. Violence in Afghanistan has intensified after the end of NATO's combat mission in 2015, and now the group maintains around 13,000 troops in the country to support and train Afghan forces. According to the United States' Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the war in the country has remained stagnant, with the Taliban controlling around 40 percent of the country. (Photo by Watan Yar/EPA/EFE)
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