Young Afghans fear losing new freedoms and their lives to the Taliban as U.S. troops prepare to exit.
Moscow and Washington are intertwined in a complex and bloody history in Afghanistan, with both suffering thousands of dead and wounded in conflicts lasting for years.
The design — a dreamcatcher motif impaled by an arrow — had little meaning to her. It was the act of getting it that appealed to her boundary-testing instincts. A She took a class on tattooing in Iran, then another in Turkey in 2018, encouraged by her U.S.-educated brother, Ali. Tattoos became a side business after opening a beauty salon with her two sisters. Word of her services have spread on Instagram, and now she says she is recognized on the street.
But even those with freedoms far outside Kabul fear the hard ways and strict scriptures of the Taliban. But after graduating from high school in 2018, Hafiza put her university ambitions on hold. Instead, she opened her own elementary school in her family’s living room. Enrollment swelled so quickly that the 19-year-old director moved to a rented townhouse surrounded by compound walls. The Ministry of Education later put the 16 teachers on the government payroll.
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