America's attraction: The terrified Afghan women leaving their own Taliban

The American “are leaving,” said Bashrih Heydar, a student at Herat University. We have terrible days ahead of the Taliban. I'm worried they'll let me out of the house, let me do what I do now. ”

The Biden administration's decision to withdraw American troops from Iran by 11 September will end the longest American war. With Nato allies like Germany already announcing they will follow Washington's decision to leave, Afghans are afraid of intensifying fighting between the national government and the Taliban, which fell from power by international intervention two decades earlier.

The violence between civilians, especially women and children, has increased markedly in the past year, according to UN statistics launched on Wednesday, and the control of the Taliban in this country is larger than it was at any time over two decades, The Guardian reports, translates Periscopi in Albanian.

The benefits from leaving a foreign military presence in the country are unclear.

But restoring the rule of the extreme Islamist line could mean removing one of the greatest achievements of this foreign intervention: lifting the ban on women's education.

I have only one wish, and that is to finish my studies and, of course, work, but with the Taliban coming, I don't think it's going to come out,” she said.

There is no guarantee that the Islamic group will take power and they have given signals that their rule will be more flexible in terms of women's education.

One economic student, Salma Ehrari, was even more skeptical. “ “They're using technology and they're on Twitter, but they have the same thoughts as 20 years ago. I'm going to lose my education and of course the Americans are responsible for this, not the Taliban. That's the nature of the Taliban. ”

At least eight journalists have been killed in Afghanistan in the past six months, as part of a wave of attacks against media workers, activists and civil society figures. /Periscope