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This This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Kirstie Reed.

In 1996 the Taliban took control of Afghanistan's capital Kabul for the first time.

I've been listening to accounts of those days from two residents of Kabul who were teenagers when Taliban fighters moved into the

city in late September that year. The Afghan capital Kabul has fallen to the

Taliban Islamic militia after heavy overnight fighting. Hours earlier

government troops had abandoned the city. The battle for Kabul was short but

savage. The Taliban had been repulsed twice before, but this time it was a route.

The Taliban had defeated the government of what were called the Mujahideen,

the Western-backed guerrillas who had driven out occupying Soviet troops a few years earlier.

Najib Sharihi was 15 in 1996 and he remembered watching the Mujahideen go.

People could see them packing up their goods and leaving the city.

And some of our own neighbors started packing up and leaving.

So that was the very first sign for me that Taliban are going to take over Kabul.

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