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Lights of a city under siege: disruption to Kandahar airport lights increases as the Taliban entered the city

Bowser, Brooke
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Colorado School of Mines. Payne Institute for Public Policy
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Bazilian, Morgan
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https://hdl.handle.net/11124/14108
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As U.S. troops began their withdrawal from a 20-year conflict in Afghanistan, the Taliban were steadily gaining more ground in rural regions of the country. Kandahar, the second-largest city in Afghanistan and the capital of the southern Kandahar Province, was a strategic advancement in the Taliban's eventual seizure of the nation's capital, Kabul. Kandahar also has historical significance as the location of the Taliban's rise to prominence in the 1990s.
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