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Women in England protest the violence of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021

Afghan judge, activist survives Taliban assassination attempts to run for office in UK

I huddled in the sewer for four hours, surrounded by dirt and stench, flies biting me all over. I knew the Taliban men had come to kill me.
Conflict
The Ali Abad Orthopedic Centre in Kabul has helped thousands of Afghans obtain the prosthetics they need to live fuller, more productive lives

Fixing limbs for decades amidst Afghan conflict and chaos

To leave when Afghanistan needs more help than ever would have been a real betrayal. If I had also left, who would stay?
Conflict

Afghan professor urges world to defend women’s rights

In the past two decades, we could dream. We could become doctors, college instructors, business owners. We could drive, compete in sports, represent our country in parliament. Now, that is all gone.
Conflict
Farkhunda Muhtaj, 23, dribbles the ball for the York University Lions in Toronto, Canada. Muhtaj was instrumental in helping evacuate 26 Afghan Junior Women’s Team players and their families to safety in August.

Afghan women’s soccer captain helps teen team escape to safety

I was the only point of contact for the girls and their families. Hope was hard to come by, but I couldn’t leave my sisters behind.
Conflict
Habibullah Farzad undergoing treatment at a hospital in Kabul.

Women’s rights activist tells of beating at hands of Taliban

Batons, sticks, electrical cables, and whips pummeled my thighs, back, shoulder, and face. The blows broke my right hand. My mouth oozed blood, and bruises covered my body. When I begged for my release, they just beat me harder.
Conflict
Like everyone trying to get out of Afghanistan in August 2021, Abdul Ghafoor Khpalwak went to Kabul and headed to the airport

Former interpreter for US, Canada left behind in Afghanistan

I closed the shop and rushed to my house. The bodies of my children and wife lay buried under the debris. My father, brother, and neighbors helped me carry my dead family out of the rubble.
Sex & Gender
Kabul, Afghanistan in 2020. On Aug. 15, 2021, the Taliban entered the city to complete their re-conquest of Afghanistan

Taliban takeover devastates Afghan woman’s present and future

I ask, “Why am I alive,” when I cannot study, work, or even move about. For 20 years, I have dreamed. Every single second—every moment of my life—I was proud to be a woman in Afghanistan. Now, we are left with nothing but a grim life and dread of the future.
Conflict
Major Jonathan Bossie of the United States Marine Corps, planning with members of the Afghan National Army.

Former US Marine reflects on service in Afghanistan’s ‘Valley of Death’

If Afghan citizens cooperated with us, the enemy killed or intimidated them. During the day, to our faces, they loved us. But at night, when we could no longer protect them, they loved the Taliban.
Conflict
Noor Hassan Shinwari, 36, served with the British Armed Forces 14th Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare Signal Intelligence Squadron) for seven months from March 2010 to September 2010. He was denied resettlement to the UK on June 25, 2021. His face is blacked out to protect potential retribution from the Taliban, but his real name is being shared to highlight his bid for asylum.

Two interpreters for British Armed Forces trapped in Kabul

They risked their lives as interpreters for the British Armed Forces in their home of Afghanistan. Now the UK is gone, the Taliban have taken over, and they're lives are in danger.
Conflict
A soldier mentors Afghan police in Kabul.

Bloody justice in Kabul

With an AK-47 slung over his shoulder and a small tree branch for swatting general lawbreakers in his hand, this "student of God" approached the melee.

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