Retaking the farming district of Khawja Umari is one attempt at shaping the political environment during the Doha peace negotiations
KHAWJA UMARI, Afghanistan—A semblance of peace has returned to this luxuriantly green farm district in southeastern Afghanistan. Farmers tend potato fields and grape vineyards lined by rows of poplar and copses of birch trees. A half-dozen boys sit atop the cement wall of an irrigation canal rushing with water, whiling away the hot, dry afternoon.
Until two weeks ago, the fundamentalist Taliban controlled Khawja Umari. For nine months, they ranged through the district of about 16,000 residents, demanding food, ordering women...
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