{"id":30935,"date":"2021-04-15T00:34:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/afghan-women-fear-the-return-of-the-taliban"},"modified":"2021-04-15T00:34:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:34:21","slug":"terrible-days-ahead-afghan-women-fear-the-return-of-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30935","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Terrible days ahead\u2019: Afghan women fear the return of the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years of liberty, female education is once again threatened by hardline Islamists<\/p>\n<p>Outside a college from which their mothers were banned, the women waited for friends finishing exams they fear will be some of the last they can take. \u201cThe Americans are leaving,\u201d said Basireh Heydari, a Herat University student. \u201cWe have terrible days ahead with the Taliban. I\u2019m worried they won\u2019t let me leave the house, let alone what I\u2019m doing now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/apr\/13\/biden-withdraw-troops-afghanistan-september-11\">decision to withdraw<\/a> all US troops from Afghanistan by 11 September will bring an end to the US\u2019s longest war. With Nato allies such as Germany already announcing on Wednesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/all-nato-troops-expected-to-leave-afghanistan-before-11-september\">they will follow Washington\u2019s lead and exit the country<\/a>, Afghans fear an intensification of fighting between the national government and the Taliban, who were ousted by the US-led intervention two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/afghan-women-fear-the-return-of-the-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years of liberty, female education is once again threatened by hardline IslamistsOutside a college from which their mothers were banned, the women waited for friends finishing exams they fear will be some of the last they can take. \u201cThe Americ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2090,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,615,59,470,44,47,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-education","category-global-development","category-nato","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30936,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30935\/revisions\/30936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}