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LOSING CONTROL? NATO's top official rebutted a US intelligence assessment that the Afghan government controls just 30 percent of the country's population

AGENCIES , WASHINGTON

McConnell told the Senate Committee on Armed Services on Wednesday that the Taliban was able to control the population in about 10 percent of the country and Afghanistan's federal government had control of approximately 30 percent.

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