Adila Ayoub Hakimi

The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul marked not only the fall of a government but a historical moment of moral failure. Afghan women have paid the price. Subscribe for ads-free reading August 15 holds a solemn place in the collective memory of the Afghan people as a symbol of state collapse, the onset of darkness, and the failure of the international conscience. On this day, a fundamentalist, misogynistic, and anti-human group used force to reassert its control over the fate of a nation.