Shock And Fear: RFE/RL Afghan Journalist Remembers Taliban Takeover In Kabul Five Years Ago
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Floral rain from helicopters and car corsos: how the Taliban are staging their takeover of power in Kabul.
Shock And Fear: RFE/RL Afghan Journalist Remembers Taliban Takeover In Kabul Five Years Ago
Malali Bashir, the managing editor of RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, recalls how she and her colleagues in Prague and Afghanistan covered the Taliban takeover of Kabul and collapse of the Afghan government on August 15, 2021.
Afghan women are alone in the Taliban’s war against them, abandoned by the rest of the world, says Zara Zoya, an Afghan journalist who managed to escape Kabul during the Taliban’s return to power after the sudden withdrawal of US forces five years ago. August 15 is a “very painful day” for the 34-year-old woman who lives in London. “It’s the day I lost my country,” she says, recalling “the shock, the terror, the chaos” that accompanied the captu…
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