Yasemeen sits in the back of an open trailer with a bundle of her family’s old clothes wrapped in scarves and some used notebooks already full of a child’s handwriting. The vehicle pulls over in a busy roundabout in central Mazar-e-Sharif, a city that until the Taliban takeover last month […]
Afghans
Taliban celebrates victory as Afghans face bank runs and food shortages
Afghanistan updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Afghanistan news. As Taliban fighters celebrated the departure of US troops from Afghanistan, Aalia, a 40-year-old high school teacher, was outside a bank trying to get cash to buy groceries. Banks have been mostly closed […]