Snapshot of Suffering: Afghans Trying to Reach Airport Are Penned Up, Beaten by Taliban

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August 18, 2021

At a traffic circle just outside the Kabul airport, amped-up Taliban fighters corralled hundreds of unarmed Afghans; many fired automatic weapons indiscriminately into the air, and sometimes aimed them at the assembled men, women and children.

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