The last hours of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
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Chanting "We don't want Islamists in Afghanistan", around 500 protesters - many of them women and children - flocked onto Syntagma Square outside the Greek parliament ANGELOS TZORTZINIS AFP
By: Sonia Ghezali Follow
20 mins
A look back at the last days of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ... before the country fell back into Taliban hands after a war that lasted 20 years, the longest in US history. United. Religious fundamentalist insurgents have taken their revenge two decades after their regime was overthrown in 2001 by the United States at the head of an international coalition.Washington launched their offensive in response to the 9/11 attacks by the terrorist group Islamist Al Qaeda, hosted in Afghanistan. The Taliban regime, blamed for its fundamentalist regime based on Sharia law, which reserves a terrible fate for women, is overthrown in favor of a democracy supported by the West.Some women will be able to benefit during these twenty years of major advances in terms of rights. Advances called into question with the seizure of power by the Taliban.
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Report by Sonia Ghezali with the collaboration of Jamail Basir.
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