One month after the US announced it would withdraw its troops from war-ravaged Afghanistan, Taliban attacks are growing stronger and more brazen. This past weekend, a car bomb attack outside a girls’ school on Saturday took the lives of dozens of teenage girls. Ali Dossti, a 24-year-old student at the American University of Afghanistan, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about his family’s search for his sisters.
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