Stunned residents return after IS losses in east Afghanistan

Fighters from the Islamic State group unleashed a wave of destruction in the areas they seized in eastern Afghanistan.

Afghan farmer Gulnar Malik had seen her share of hardships as war-ravaged her country for decades -- but nothing prepared the mother of five for the arrival of the Islamic State group.

IS militants seized her village in the east Afghanistan province of Nangarhar, bordering Pakistan, nearly five years ago, unleashing a tide of carnage and slaughter as they sought to expand their self-declared Syria and Iraq "caliphate" into Afghanistan.