Crossing Afghanistan along the 'highway of death'

Home Shows Revisited Video content Program Asia / Pacific To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: REVISITED © FRANCE 24 15:42 Issued on: 13/11/2026 - 17:47 From the show Highway 1, or the Ring Road, connects Afghanistan's major cities. After September 11, 2001, it became a hotspot for crime and fighting, particularly between the capital Kabul and Kandahar, the Taliban's birthplace. People taking it had to navigate extortions, kidnappings and suicide bombings. What has become of the road after the US-led war and five years of Taliban rule? Our former Afghanistan correspondent Claire Billet and photojournalist Sandra Calligaro returned to the country to find out.