Salma Ehrari News Today

‘Terrible days ahead’: Afghan women fear the return of the Taliban After 20 years of liberty, female education is once again threatened by hardline Islamists By Akhtar Mohammad Makoii in Herat and Michael Safi Outside a college from which their mothers were banned, the women waited for friends finishing exams they fear will be some of the last they can take. “The Americans are leaving,” said Basireh Heydari, a Herat University student. “We have terrible days ahead with the Taliban. I�...

The frequent New York Times contributor facing criminal charges for allegedly serving as an unregistered, paid agent of the government... Afghanistan is the country that once gave shelter to Osama bin Laden after Saudi Arabia and Sudan exiled him. It is where he planned 9/11 and where he successfully hid afterwards — at least until he relocated to Pakistan’s elite military enclave in Abbottabad. Nearly 20 years ago, President George W. Bush unleashed American troops to find bin Laden and to...

President Joe Biden announces the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan by September 11, rejecting any presence for a political resolution and stability.

Violence against civilians, especially women and children, has surged over the past year, according to UN statistics released on Wednesday, and Taliban control of the country is greater than at any point in the past two decades. The benefits of an ongoing foreign military presence in the country are unclear. But a return to hardline Islamist rule could mean the rollback of one of the intervention’s least disputed achievements – the lifting of a Taliban prohibition of female education....