RAWA News: Afghanistan under the brutal rule of the Taliban is a big prison and slaughterhouse for its women and girls. The past one year was a complete catastrophe for Afghan women in every field of life. However, Afghan women were in the forefront of the fight for justice and their rights. Despite being suppressed, tortured and jailed, they continue to voice their opposition to Taliban and their foreign masters. We have listed few out of hundreds of women killed in the past five months that have been reported in the Afghan media:
The multibillion-dollar trade has survived previous bans. Now, the Taliban are going after solar-powered water pumps to try to dry up poppy crops in the middle of a national economic crisis.
Oscar Olvera, 31, of Biglerville, was called by God back home to his eternal resting place on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, freeing him of his pain as he bravely confronted
Race against time to relocate Afghan translators
5 hours ago A translator for the US Army listens during a security meeting with various members of the Afghan National Security Forces near Combat Outpost Hutal in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. File/Reuters
Callum Paton and Mushtaq Mojaddidi,
Agence France-Presse
Like thousands of Afghan translators who served with NATO forces, Nazir Ahmad fears for his life as the US-led alliance scrambles to pull out of the country in the coming weeks.
“The situation is deteriorating now as foreign forces leave,” he told AFP in Kabul. “We are scared of the insurgents. They know our faces.”
KABUL, June 2 ― The US military will hand over its main Bagram Air Base to Afghan forces in about 20 days, an official said yesterday, as Washington carries out its final withdrawal after nearly two decades of war. The vast base, built by the Soviets in the 1980s, is the biggest military facility.