As smoke and gunfire were still drifting into the evening sky above Kabul earlier this week following an attack on the defence minister's house, an insistent new sound began to rise over the Afghan capital.
While security forces finished off the attackers, thousands of residents took to the streets and rooftops to shout “God is greatest!” in a display of defiance against the militants and support for Afghan troops.
The gesture had begun a day earlier in the Western city of Herat and has since been copied in several cities, becoming a rallying cry for a beleaguered nation shocked by the Taliban's rapid gains.
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