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Hi, Malika here.

In 2017, U.S. forces dropped a 10,000 kilogram bomb on a remote village in eastern Afghanistan,

saying the target was ISIL fighters.

The strike made headlines around the world and then quickly faded from view. But for the people

who lived there, the impact never did. Today, we're revisiting an episode from the archives that

takes us to that village. Almost nine years later, its residents are still living with lingering health problems,

destroyed farmland, and unanswered questions.

It's an intimate look at what modern warfare leaves behind,

long after the world has moved on.

The episode originally aired July 14, 2025. All dates and references are from

that time. Today, tracing the scars of the mother of all bombs. You go to these places where wells have dried up,

where ancestral farmlands have been taken away,

where people's homes and their lives and their memories

and their children have been destroyed,

and they're still waiting for somebody to be held accountable.

Al Jazeera traveled to the remote Afghan village of Spingar to see what still lingers.

I'm Natasha Deltoro, and this is the take.

My name is Osama Bidjaveh. I'm a correspondent for Al-Zera English. I'm coming to you from Doha.

As always, happy to have you on the take. You know, really interested in your recent reporting in Afghanistan. Some of the images that you brought back were absolutely stunning.

You recently got rare access to Spingar, which is a village in eastern Afghanistan, where the U.S.

dropped the so-called mother of all bombs back in April 2017.

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