The same women who helped to symbolize America’s influence in Afghanistan are now being left behind as terror strikes.
that she is at home, fearing attack by the Taliban. “I’m sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family. I’m just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for people like me and kill me,” she said. “I can’t leave my family. And anyway, where would I go?”
The silencing of Afghan newswomen is a loss of truth and information in what is now a terrorist-ruled country, making it all the more brave when Al-Jazeera reporter Charlotte Bellis—the only female journalist allowed at the Taliban’s first news conference—“I want to talk to you about women’s rights and girls’ rights, about whether women will be allowed to work and if girls will still go to school,” said Bellis, a New Zealand native.
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