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UN 'Deeply Concerned' About Afghanistan Fighting as Taliban Advances
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2:06Now PlayingWith Taliban fighters continuing to gain ground in Afghanistan, the UN Secretary-General is following events "with deep concern" a UN spokesman said on Thursday.
"We are particularly concerned about the shift of fighting to urban areas, where the potential for civilian harm is even greater," Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York.
The Taliban captured Afghanistan's third-largest city and a strategic provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, further squeezing the country's embattled government just weeks before the end of the American military mission there.
The seizure of Herat marks the biggest prize yet for the Taliban, who have taken 11 of Afghanistan's 34 provincial capitals as part of a weeklong blitz. Taliban fighters rushed past the Great Mosque in the historic city - which dates to 500 BC and was once a spoil of Alexander the Great - and seized government buildings.
Witnesses described hearing sporadic gunfire at one government building while the rest of the city fell silent under the insurgents' control.
With security rapidly deteriorating, the United States was sending in 3,000 troops to help evacuate some personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
Separately, Britain said about 600 troops would be deployed on a short-term basis to support British nationals leaving the country.
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