Today marks the second anniversary of the 2021 Taliban takeover of the Afghan capital Kabul. Since then, the group has transformed the country into a place where women have very few rights and many are struggling to make ends meet. The World’s Shirin Jaafari spoke with a helicopter pilot who was serving in the Afghan military as the Taliban seized control of the country.
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