Word: graveses
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Advancing under a hail of fire on Monday afternoon, Alliance troops scaled the walls and ran to within a few yards of the building. From there, they fired a barrage of grenades in through the windows. After a few hours of fierce fighting, Alliance soldiers soaked the outside walls of...
We tell ourselves the truth must out, my translator and I. Tell the world and help should come. Stumbling over graves, interviewing the hopeless, taking pictures of the dead. That's the discipline. That's my training. There's a steely war reporters bravery to that. Strange, because it feels...
But his deputy betrayed him in May 1997, turning the city over to the Taliban while Dostum fled to Turkey. The local Uzbeks and Hazaras rose in revolt. They took back the city, drove 2,000 of the mostly Pashtun Taliban into the desert in large container trucks and buried...
Khrum, nestled in the Torghar Mountain range about 20 miles Jalalabad, was in ruins after suffering direct hits recently. The unexploded bomb and bomb and missile shrapnel littering the destroyed village were clear indications of an air attack. The stench of death hung in the air as corpses of cattle...
But there's no denying the awesomeness of the sight once you're inside. The gardens, the ornamental fountains. The minarets, the enormous marble arches. It is big enough, still white enough, as it stands against a clear skyline. The symmetry is perfect. But as soon as this impression passes...