Uzbekistan said Sunday that 84 Afghan soldiers crossed its border fleeing the Taliban as the militant group seized Afghanistan's fourth-largest city in its blistering takeover of the country.
Taliban fighters and local residents sit over an Afghan National Army humvee vehicle along the roadside in Laghman province on August 15, 2021.
Uzbekistan provided the detained Afghan soldiers with food, temporary accommodation and medical treatment, the Uzbek foreign ministry said in its statement. “Measures are being taken to provide humanitarian assistance to these persons,” the statement said without offering details.
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