Jack Gruber | Photojournalist A Russian made tank used by the Taliban destroyed in the Afghan civil war is abandoned along the road just outside the village of Anbar Somuch twenty-five kilometers west of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan. Villagers of Anbar Somuch, a central highland Afghanistan village, fled their homes after the Taliban captured the region in some of the final and most brutal battles of the Afghan civil war in late 1998. Those villagers who stayed to protect their homes were killed. One year after the Taliban regime was forced from power, village refugees are returning to their homes in Anbar Somuch finding them completely burned and destroyed by the fleeing Taliban taking with them any possessions and livestock left behind by the fleeing villagers. With the help of world aid agencies and other donations, the village is rebuilding and hoping to survive through this first winter home. © 2002 USA TODAY