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Adjusting to life in America is difficult for Afghan women who used to be journalists.

BRATTLEBORO — Ebrahim Mussavi would like his neighbors in Vermont to know more of his home country of Afghanistan than what they see on the news. In an exhibit at

They Were Journalists, and Women, and Targeted for Both As Afghanistan enters a desperate chapter, with U.S. troops potentially on the way out, insurgents are pressing a deadly campaign to silence the media and keep women home. Relatives and mourners perform funeral prayers over the coffin of one of the three female media workers shot and killed in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, this week.Credit...Noorullah Shirzada/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images You can tell a lot about a country by the reasons its journalists get attacked. In many places, the greatest dangers come from revealing the sensiti...

Afghan journalists are being killed for their work, and they just "want to stay alive" By Ahmad Mukhtar Afghan troop withdrawal prompts security concerns Nazifa worked for years as a journalist in Afghanistan's capital. Last month, she fled her country after repeated warnings from the national intelligence agency that insurgents were plotting to kill her.  She only made the difficult decision to leave after a would-be assassin, disguised as vaccination worker, made it into her home. "The angel of death made it to my apartment doorsteps," Nazifa, who didn't wish to use he...