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Once the winter residence of sultans from illustrious Islamic dynasties, the ruins of a thousand-year-old royal city in southern Afghanistan have become home to hundreds of people who have fled Taliban clashes.
The astonishing ochre clay complex juts from the cliffs along the Helmand River, threatened by decay and encroaching urban sprawl as well as the makeshift constructions that have grown within it.
Thousands of people have been displaced across Helmand since October following a surge in Taliban attacks, and while many have resettled in the capital Lashkar Gah one of the few areas in the province still under government control some have joined other refugees in the ruins.
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Afghans displaced by conflict settle in ruins of a lost city
AFP, LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan
Once the winter residence of sultans from illustrious Islamic dynasties, the ruins of a thousand-year-old royal city in southern Afghanistan have become home to hundreds of people who have fled Taliban clashes.
The astonishing ocher clay complex juts from the cliffs along the Helmand River, threatened by decay and encroaching urban sprawl, as well as the makeshift constructions that have grown within it.
Thousands of people have been displaced across Helmand Province since October last year following a surge in Taliban attacks, and while many have resettled in the capital, Lashkar Gah one of the few areas in the province still under government control some have joined other refugees in the ruins.
May 25, 2021
Elise Blanchard & Rashid Durrani
LASHKAR GAH, AFGHANISTAN (AFP) – Once the winter residence of sultans from illustrious Islamic dynasties, the ruins of a thousand-year-old royal city in southern Afghanistan have become home to hundreds of people who have fled Taleban clashes.
The astonishing ochre clay complex juts from the cliffs along the Helmand River, threatened by decay and encroaching urban sprawl as well as the makeshift constructions that have grown within it.
Thousands of people have been displaced across Helmand since October following a surge in Taleban attacks, and while many have resettled in the capital Lashkar Gah – one of the few areas in the province still under government control – some have joined other refugees in the ruins.
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