KABUL (REUTERS) - The official websites of the Taleban, who swept to power in Afghanistan on the back of a lightning offensive last week, appeared to have vanished from the Internet late on Friday (Aug 20).
It was not immediately clear whether a technical fault or something else was to blame.
The Taleban operate separate websites in Pashto, Dari, Arabic, Urdu and English.
All five appeared to be unreachable on Friday.
A spokeswoman for CloudFlare, which online records list as providing protection for the Taleban sites, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The outage was first reported by The Washington Post.
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