The Beasts of Kabul: Inside the Afghan Army’s Soviet Tanks

Once a common fixture of the Soviet invasion, and later, the civil war between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, tanks have largely vanished from today’s unconventional war in Afghanistan. But decades later, from a base on the outskirts of the capital city of Kabul, a few hundred Afghan soldiers still ride rusting museum pieces into battle against the Taliban. We go inside the last few tanks that are kept running solely by using parts from other old tanks. Read more at: