Jake Simkin News Today

Hollie was the only western reporter on the ground when Mazar-e Sharif fell, and has been back to Afghanistan multiple times over the past year.

The UN says only about 100 Afghans have died in Taliban revenge killings. Vulnerable Afghans are hiding and keeping their own count of those who disappear.

Four years after her first trip into a relatively stable Afghanistan, reporter Hollie McKay found herself being escorted north to the Uzbek border — by the Taliban.