Kandahar residents fear Taliban advance on Afghan city
Al Jazeera
Thousands of Afghans displaced and many forced to flee to safer places as Taliban surrounds Kandahar city.
Kandahar, Afghanistan – Last week, Kawsar Sama and her family packed up their belongings and got on a flight to the capital city of Kabul. For the 21-year-old and her family, life in the southern city of Kandahar had become risky as the Taliban has pushed into the districts surrounding Afghanistan’s second-largest city in recent weeks. “It’s too risky for people to send their children to school. You’d only go to the market if you absolutely had to, and even then, so many of the stores would be shut. Life had stopped,” Sama said from her family’s temporary home in Kabul. Though she says the Taliban is yet to enter the city centre itself, the fighting has come to the districts. Residents Al Jazeera spoke to said this has left them feeling trapped, in constant fear that the Taliban could arrive any day.More Related News