Yamgan District is one of the 29

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Badakhshan Province Badakhshan Province (Persian/ Uzbek: , ''Badaxšān'') is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan in the north and the Pakistani regions of Lower ...

in eastern

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. It was created in 2005 from part of the Baharak District and is home to approximately 20,000 residents, mostly

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History

During the Afghan Civil War the area was under

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influence from 2015 to 2019, on September of that year

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declared they had full control over it. On late March 2020 the district was fully captured by the Taliban.

References

External links

Map
at the Afghanistan Information Management Services Districts of Badakhshan Province {{Badakhshan-geo-stub