Taliban fighters lead the way into Pul-e Charkhi prison, a high-security facility in the outskirts of Kabul. The United States used it during their presence in Afghanistan.... And they invited us for a tour.... Now that the Taliban has taken over Afghanistan they say there are some 60 prisoners in this complex and that they are being treated fairly.“ We are trying to keep crime rates low....

But the worst damage was in the neighboring Paktika Province, which lies along the border with Pakistan.“ Nearly all government and private hospitals are full of victims, ” said Awal Khan Zadran, a doctor in the Urgun district of Paktika.... Some of the injured were taken to Kabul, the Afghan capital, by helicopters and others were transported to nearby provinces, he said.It was the latest in a series of tragedies to strike the country since the Taliban seized power from the Western-backed gove