Hours after the Taliban overran his hometown in northern Afghanistan last week, 17-year-old Abdullah was forced to ferry rocket-propelled grenades up a nearby hill –- an unwilling and terrified insurgent recruit.
Elise Blanchard
Female Assassins Who Served as a Deadly Duo for the Taliban
Female assassins who lured an Afghan security official to his death with promises of sex before shooting him and dumping his body at a cemetery are among thousands of Taliban criminals freed as part of a fragile peace plan.
Filmmaker Roya Sadat: Voice of the Afghan Women
For a generation, Roya Sadat has been a voice for Afghan women in one of the world’s worst places to be one.