For that, she fears, the Taliban could kill her. With the United States's longest war costing more than a trillion dollars and the lives of more than 3, coalition soldiers, the US is desperate to bring its troops home.
Now, a peace deal could end with a power-sharing agreement with the Taliban, a regime that denied women basic rights and publicly executed them for defying their draconian laws. But they're telling us that now the Taliban is legit," says Laila, an outspoken advocate who runs a drug rehab centre. A young woman who recently fled an area controlled by the fighters describes how she was forced to marry at the age of 12; her husband beat her and her father-in-law demanded sex.
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