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The Fall of Samangan occurred on 9 August 2021 when the Taliban captured Samangan (Aibak), the capital of Afghanistan's Samangan Province, amid the 2021 Taliban offensive which ended the Afghanistan War. Afghan National Army forces withdrew from the city without a fight after community representatives requested that the city be spared more violence, and former senator and prominent Jamiat-e Islami warlord Mohammad Asif Azimi defected to the Taliban and brought hundreds of his fighters with him.

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