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College professor Moqadasa Rasouli has many memories from when the Taliban ruled the majority of Afghanistan and enforced a strict interpretation of sharia or Islamic law. These memories are invariably the stuff of nightmares. Once, Rasouli witnessed a group of women being severely whipped ....
July 21, 2021 Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Against the Current Afghanistan has been in a state of chaos since at least the Taliban resurgence in 2006 and the entry of the Islamic State group (Daesh) more recently. Assaults have been made not just on Afghan police units and U.S. military targets but also on prisons, schools, funerals and maternity wards across the country. In early 2017, the UN estimated that some 18,000 civilians had been killed since 2015 alone. Taliban gunmen attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul in January 2018. Daesh attacked offices and staff members of international NGOs. Women and men who have worked with those offices have been targeted with threatening “night letters” and some with assassination. ....
A Reuters journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, Danish Siddiqui, was killed on July 16, 2021, while covering fighting between Afghan security forces and the Taliban in Afghanistan. As the United States withdraws its remaining troops from the country, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by escalating violence against journalists and calls on the authorities to better protect the media, especially women, from targeted violence and threats. President Biden announced in mid-April that all US combat forces would leave Afghanistan by September 11, which will mark the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks against the Pentagon and the World Trade Center towers in New York City that led to America’s longest war. Journalists in Afghanistan have faced dangerous and deadly conditions in the two decades since the US and allied NATO forces went to war against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. At least 100 journalists, including 15 international journalists, have been kille ....
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