Dispatches: A Special Report From Afghanistan

As cities across the country fell last week, TIME correspondents were on the battlefields and moving with the front lines. Three reports--on the capital's fall, a gruesome massacre, and an ambush followed by a tense standoff--show the savagery, trickery and betrayal at the heart of Afghan warfare

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