Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, sent two medical teams on Tuesday, one from Pul-e-Kumri in Baghlan Province and another from Taloqan in neighboring Takhar province.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, sent two medical teams on Tuesday, one from Pul-e-Kumri in Baghlan Province and another from Taloqan in neighboring Takhar Province.
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The Taliban is fighting its opponents on several fronts, but the scene of the heaviest fighting has been in northern Afghanistan around Pul-e-Kumri, where the Taliban is claiming some strategic gains.
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Pul-e-Kumri, barely 150 kilometers ( 90 miles ) north of the beleaguered capital of Kabul, was previously ruled by Ismaili Muslim leader Sayed Jaffer, a moderate Muslim from southern California.
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As of Wednesday, 300 people had been treated for injuries at the scene, and 70 of them were treated for more serious injuries, many of them taken out to Pul-e-Kumri.
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The front line had shifted to a road junction, 20 kilometers ( 12 miles ) east of Mazar-e-Sharif, that leads to Pul-e-Kumri in the southeast, Abil said.
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Anti-Taliban coalition member Syed Jaffer Naderi had his headquarters at Pul-e-Kumri, which would be the fourth strategic town or city to fall to the Taliban in the last week and a half.
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Another opposition spokesman, Ashraf Nadeem, said Taliban also withdrew from the key road junction town of Pul-e-Kumri in Baghlan province and that Taliban forces in the area were headed toward central Bamiyan west of Kabul.
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The town fell on Nov . 26, but the region was still dangerous, and now the nearby village of Pul-i-Kumri erupted in gunfire as the Jaffar militia confronted the troops of another anti-Taliban warlord.
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Gen . Khalil, a military commander from a town in the area, Pul-e-Kumri, also said the town of Nahrin had been wiped out and that " we didn't see any houses standing ."
