PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN: The last time Abdul Rasheed's family saw him alive was in May when the young Pakistani left for Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban. He returned home last week in a cardboard coffin.

The militant group is waging an offensive across Afghanistan's countryside, snapping up territory and leaving the Afghan forces facing a crisis with the United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization all but gone.

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