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Du Ab
District
Du AbLocation within Afghanistan
Coordinates: 35°12′50″N 70°22′24″E / 35.21389°N 70.37333°E / 35.21389; 70.37333
Country	Afghanistan
Province	Nuristan Province
Population
• Total	7,700

Du Ab District, Dō Āb District, Du'ab District, Doab District, (Persian: ولسوالی دوآب, Pashto: دو آب ولسوالۍ two waters ) is a district of Nuristan Province, in eastern Afghanistan.

History

The Taliban launched an attack on the Du Ab and Qatar Khak areas on 31 January 1997. Between June 4 and June 5, 2021, the district fell to the Taliban forces after 20 days of fighting. This marked the 7th district to fall to the Taliban since May 1, 2021.

References

1. "Nuristan Provincial Profile" (PDF). Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
2. Dō Āb (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
3. "Executive Summaries: Nuristan Summary 2009" Program for Culture & Conflict Studies, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)
4. Paul Preston; Michael Partridge; Anita Prazmowska (May 1999). British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Soviet Union, January 1947-December 1947. University Publications of America. ISBN 978-1-55655-764-4. Retrieved 5 February 2011 – via Great Britain. Foreign Office.
5. "Afghanistan Administrative Divisions" Archived 23 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine map, March 2007, Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS)
6. British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service (1997). Summary of world broadcasts: Asia, Pacific. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
7. "Taliban seizes another district in Afghanistan".

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v t e Nuristan Province
Capital: Parun
Districts	Barg-i Matal Du Ab Kamdesh Mandol Nurgaram Nuristan Parun Wama Waygal
Populated places	Bagalgrom Kamdesh Pesawur Peshawar
Other	Nuristanis Nuristani languages Governors Kafiristan Landai Sin River Landai Sin Valley Mir Samir Nuristan National Park Pech River

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