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The article discusses the impact that the militant organization the Taliban's occupation of Kunduz, Afghanistan had on women in the city, including in regard to the Taliban's destruction of organizations in the city that involved women and Kunduz women's internal migration. An overview of the accusations that members of the Taliban raped women in Kunduz is provided.

The article states that the aid organization Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, announced in early October 2015 that it was leaving Kunduz, Afghanistan, following an airstrike on the city's hospital that killed 22 and destroyed its intensive care unit. According to the article, the U.S. agency the Department of Defense said that U.S. forces may have inadvertently hit the hospital during a military operation, though fighters from the Islamic fundamentalist group the Taliban may have been inside the hospital firing at U.S. troops.

The article reports on the efforts of government forces of Afghanistan to retake the city of Kunduz, Afghanistan from fighters of Taliban terrorist group and presents views of Ahmad Khalid, resident of Kunduz, Afghanistan, on fear among the residents of the city.

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan -- This city, once a crossroads in the country's northeast, is increasingly besieged. The airport closed months ago to commercial flights. The roads heading south to Kabul and east to Tajikistan as well as north and west are no longer safe for Afghans, let alone Westerners. Although the numbers of American and German troops in the north have more than doubled since last year, insecurity has spread, the Taliban are expanding their reach, and armed groups that purportedly support the government are terrorizing local people and hampering aid organizations, according to international aid workers, Afghan government officials, local residents and diplomats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the capture of the provincial capital of Kunduz, Afghanistan, by the terrorist organization the Taliban as of October 1, 2015. The author explains that while the fighting lasted only a few hours, the insurgency had been planning this campaign for at least two years, explores the role of the American-trained Afghan government, and examines the evacuation of the city prior to its capture.

The article reports on the announcement made by Islamic fundamentalist organization Taliban about their decision to withdraw their position from the northern city of Kunduz, Afghanistan on October 13, 2015.