The Taliban capabilities do not come as a surprise, as all the earlier estimates provided by the UNSC reports, UNAMA, and other agencies pointed out that the Taliban has not remained an insurgent force and had developed conventional fighting capabilities. Like any other organisation, as some experts argue, the Taliban may have numerous factions, and yet, the scale of operations, the speed of deployment, and the command-control structure suggest that the Taliban is operating as a regular army
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