{
  "id": 893167,
  "title": "Five years on, Taliban has territory but not sovereignty",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/five-years-on-taliban-has-territory-but-not-sovereignty",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-14T17:09:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/five-years-on-taliban-has-territory-but-not-sovereignty/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Kabul’s dispute with Islamabad over Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan sanctuaries is not a border quarrel. It is the clearest evidence yet that five years after seizing power, the Taliban has mastered control of Afghan territory without accepting what control is supposed to mean: responsibility for what happens within it. That distinction — between holding ground and holding […] The post Five years on,…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}