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Afghanistan's Volatile North

Taliban, IS, government forces and warlords: the battle for control in Darzab district.

In Northern Afghanistan, a ferocious and complicated fight has been raging for years with little attention from the outside world. In the remote Darzab distict in Jowzan province the Taliban, so called Islamic State, government forces and local warlords fight for control. It's a very difficult place to access as a journalist, but ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Uzbek's Firuz Rahimi grew up in the area, and recently returned.

Image: a machine gun emplacement in Afghanistan's Jowzan province
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