Taliban’s New Muscle Flexing: Cell Phone Outages

Every evening like clockwork, all the cell phones in Afghanistan’s Wardrak Province stop working—and every resident knows why. The Taliban have taken to shutting off cell towers all across Afghanistan, threatening to blow them up if operators don’t cooperate, the New York Times reports. “Our main goal is to…

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Taliban’s New Muscle Flexing: Cell Phone Outages

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