| Hundreds of women and children, families of foreign Taliban, mostly Chechens and Arabs, have been left stranded by the fighting in Afghanistan and are at grave risk, Human Rights Watch said. The organization urged all Afghan forces, the United States, and the international community to facilitate the exit of these civilians from combat zones in Afghanistan. About 500 women and children, believed to be Chechens, have sought refuge in the villages of Paktia and Logar provinces in eastern Afghanistan. A smaller group of thirty families apparently from Arab countries live in vehicles and travel at night around the canyons of the two provinces to avoid U.S. bombing. |