Afghanistan: Inside Afghanistan's Desperate Battle to Control a Dam in Taliban Country

Aug 6, 2019 | Andrew Quilty, Vice
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It was after midnight when red tracer rounds spat from government lines in Helmand’s Kajaki District across a band of darkness toward a second line of lights. From a hilltop perch, an Afghan National Army sentry on lookout barely shifted in his seat; the fighting here is constant.