Afghanistan marks 5 years under the Taliban with safer streets but pleas for jobs and education
UN agencies say 2.4 million girls are barred from secondary school as Taliban officials tout security and stability.
- Five years after retaking Kabul in 2021, the Taliban remain firmly in control of Afghanistan, yet most major governments have not formally recognized the regime as the country's legitimate rulers.
- Taliban fighters rode through Kabul in American Humvees in mid-August 2021, leaving desperate families crushed against airport gates while attempting to flee the country.
- Between 2001 and 2018, the number of Afghan girls in primary school rose to 2.5 million, but recent bans on education have reversed these gains, leaving millions without quality learning.
- Donors have deliberately routed support around the Taliban since 2021, focusing on community-based classes and teacher training outside the government system, according to Education Cannot Wait reports.
- Alice Thomas, executive director of the Central Asia Institute based in Bozeman, fears that America has forgotten its mistakes, warning that ignoring the Taliban's brutality undermines sound foreign policy and national security.
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After a ten-day blitzkrieg, the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. On August 15, 2021, they marched into Kabul as victors. They had succeeded in overthrowing the US-backed government. People fled in panic, some even clinging to the landing gear of departing planes. Five years have passed. Today, Afghanistan is a safer – but also much less free – country.
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Hundreds of men celebrated Saturday in Kabul for five years in Taliban rule, but other Afghans, including women subjected to "suffocating restrictions," according to the UN, remained cloistered in their homes.
Afghanistan is living this Saturday one of its darkest anniversaries. On August 15, 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, the capital of the country, and took power from a territory that lived those days one of the worst episodes in its history.
The regime gathers more than a thousand attendees in Kabul, including Western and Arab diplomats, and claims victory in 2021 while calling for a new stage of international cooperation
Hundreds of Taliban leaders are celebrating Saturday on the streets of Kabul the fifth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan, but other Afghans, including women under "suffocating restrictions," according to the UN, have remained cloistered.
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