Battle Rages for Mazar-e-Sharif

Oleg Nikishin

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A Northern Alliance fighter uses a body as a shield during a battle with pro-Taliban forces November 27, 2001 in a fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance, helped by U.S. and British special operation forces, claimed to have quashed an uprising by captured Taliban fighters after a third day of heavy fighting around the fortress prison.

Oleg Nikishin, "Battle Rages for Mazar-e-Sharif," in POYi Archive, Item #31799, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/31799 (accessed November 22, 2024).