Almost every city in the world has to deal with street crime, and some with dog packs. But few, if any, have to navigate such an underworld while also confronting unrelenting war.
Author: Fatima Faizi and Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Suhaila Siddiq, Afghanistan’s First Female General, Is Dead
Also a renowned surgeon, she rose through the ranks of the Afghan Army and practiced medicine during the Soviet invasion and the Afghan civil war and under the Taliban’s rule.
An Afghan Mayor Expected to Die. Instead, She Lost Her Father.
Zarifa Ghafari, one of the few female mayors in Afghanistan, has been subjected to death threats and assassination attempts, and believes her father was gunned down because of her.