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At almost every beauty sasalon, images of women's faces have been defaced, as if to erase them from public life completely. women are scared to appear on camera. i asked them about posters outside. who did it? the taliban did it? >> yeah. >> reporter: the taliban came and drove away the protesters, then they cursed us and said to remove the posters, they tell me. they told us to put on a burka and sit in our homes. but this city is full of brave women who refuse to do that. this activist and mother of five says she was forced to become a taxi driver when her husband was murdered one year ago, ...

But this city is full of brave women like her who refuse to do that. the activist and mother of five said she was forced to become a taxi driver when her husband was murdered a year ago leaving behind his car, but little else. tell me a little bit about how life has changed since the taliban took power. >> translator: a lot of changes. too many. i am sorry. i am sorry. >> reporter: it's okay. take your time. it's okay. >> translator: since the taliban regime has come to power, it has become very difficult. >> reporter: she offers to take us for a ride. it's another small act of courageous resi...

>> hi! how are you? >> reporter: i ask them about the posters outside. who did it? >> taliban. >> reporter: the taliban did it? >> yeah. >> reporter: the taliban came and drove away the protesters. then they cursed us and said to remove the posters, they tell me. they told us to put on a burqa and sit in our homes. but this city is full of brave women like her who refuse to do that. the mother of five says she was forced to become a taxi driver when her husband was murdered a year ago leaving behind his car, but little else. tell me a little bit about how life has changed since the taliban too...

Passing out. >> when she came to, she learned mark was in surgery. a bullet had ripped through his liver and intestines. the thought of also losing her husband was too much to bear. they had met 20 years earlier in the prosecutors office. she was an intern, he was working on the side. >> i think it was love at first sight. >> really? >> we'd been inseparable since 1992. and he's just the love of my life. >> and now, the life they had built together flashed before her eyes. a deeply religious woman, she focused on praying for her husband. >> whoever did this was out there? >> we yes. >> and tha...

The police headquarters shown in this taliban propaganda video, unverified by nbc news, apparently abandoned. a fleet of trucks left behind. it's yet another blow to the country's crumbling security forces who have lost control of five cities since friday. zaranj in the southeast, where some locals greeted the taliban with cheers, and in the north, a social media video showed taliban fighters stocking up on police weapons in a police truck. the speed of the taliban advance as u.s. troops withdraw ahead of a september deadline has shocked the west. >> the war in afghanistan has entered a new de...