The Taliban's return in Afghanistan: five years of one of the greatest defeats for the international community
The fundamentalist group consolidates in five years, almost without opposition, a regime of repression against freedoms, especially those of women, and plunges the country into misery. While and despite the abuses, the West takes steps for its normalization.
Fawzia Koofi recalls August as a traumatic month, having survived an assassination attempt near Kabul on August 14 six years ago while part of the Afghan peace talks team with the Taliban. On August 15, 2021, the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan as US troops withdrew and foreigners fled. Koofi, the 50-year-old former Afghan Parliament president, now exiled in London, describes the event as a nightmare.
The Taliban regime, in power for five years, has isolated and repressed Afghanistan, returning it to a dark era with a struggling economy and society where women and girls are persecuted.
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