fighters chanted victory slogans next to the US embassy in Kabul Monday as they marked the first anniversary of their return to power in following a turbulent year that saw crushed and a humanitarian crisis worsen.Exactly a year ago, the hardline Islamists captured Kabul after a nationwide lightning offensive against government forces just as US-led troops were ending two decades of intervention in a conflict that cost tens of thousands of lives.'We fulfilled the obligation of jihad and liberated our country,' said Niamatullah Hekmat, a fighter who entered the capital on August 15 last year just hours after then-president Ashraf Ghani fled the country.
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