The Taliban launched their offensive last month as foreign troops withdrew from Afghanistan.
The “retaliatory attacks” were committed by insurgents participating in a Taliban offensive that has overrun scores of districts around Afghanistan, including an estimated 150 districts in Kunduz and other northern provinces, the group said. The Taliban launched their offensive, with a focus on the north, as US-led foreign forces withdrew after two decades of war.Human Rights Watch said it conducted telephone interviews early this month with displaced residents of Bagh-e Sherkat, a town in Kunduz province from which some 600 families fled, some to Taloquan and others to Faizabad.
Taliban fighters then looted and burned abandoned homes, and shot dead two civilians, displaced residents said.
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