Fighting The Taliban Was ‘Suicide’: Hundreds Of Afghan Soldiers Escape To Tajikistan

By Golnaz Esfandiari and Mumin Ahmadi*

(RFE/RL) — Amid swift Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan, Mohammad Zaher felt that fleeing to neighboring Tajikistan was his only chance to survive.

Zaher — the head of a border communications unit in the Khwahan district of the northeastern province of Badakhshan — is...