Thousands fleeing Taliban surge in north Afghanistan
Kathy Gannon
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Camp Istiqlal, Afghanistan Sakina, who is 11, maybe 12, walked with her family for 10 days after the Taliban seized her village in northern Afghanistan and burned down the local school.
They are now among around 50 families living in a makeshift camp on a rocky patch of land on the edge of the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. They roast in plastic tents under scorching heat that reaches 110 degrees at midday. There are no trees, and the only bathroom for the entire camp is a tattered tent pitched over a foul-smelling hole.
As the Taliban surge through northern Afghanistan a traditional stronghold of U.S.-allied warlords and an area dominated by the country’s ethnic minorities thousands of families like Sakina’s are fleeing their homes, fearful of living under the insurgents’ rule.
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