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<title><![CDATA[Ethnic Militias Fuel Tensions in Northern Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal: Government officials in northern Afghanistan are building up their own ethnic-based militia groups to expand their influence and keep the Taliban at bay. But the spread of mostly Tajik and Uzbek militias is aggravating tensions with local Pashtuns&#8212;the country&#8217;s largest ethnic group but a minority in the north&#8212;some of whom say they are being driven to turn to the Taliban...]]></description>
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