[Link] Behind a Billboard of Bowe Bergdahl, Khost Maintains Anti-Taliban Ways

Read: 4/11/2021 coffeeordie.com

KHOST, Afghanistan — It’s one of few stretches of road among these winding hills and twisting valleys that remains paved and intact, untouched by the two-decade war that crippled most of Afghanistan’s land arteries.

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