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Afghan schools burning as Taliban change tactics

They came at night and no one saw them, but by morning the brand new school in this dusty northern Afghan village was almost entirely gutted. “I am afraid — we can’t do anything and we don’t know when the insurgents will come back,” says Mohammad Hashim, the 40-year-old caretaker at the Nawaqel Aria Primary School, an hour’s drive outside the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Full Story