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Will Taliban just move elsewhere?

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As allied efforts to clear Helmand province of Taliban have stepped up over the weekend, territory appears to have been won relatively easily and the Afghan flag has been raised. But what will happen to the Taliban? Can they ever really be "eradicated"? Zuhra Bahman from the War Studies Department at Kings College discusses how the Taliban will just move elsewhere, as they've done in the past.

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