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Azadah Raz Mohammad

Nooria, 35, decided to leave after the fighting in Kunduz arrived in her home, when a rocket landed in her house and injured her son in his leg and might now require amputation, according to doctors that spoke to her, after she took her entire family and fled to a makeshift camp for displaced Afghans fleeing the fighting between the Taliban and the Afghan Security Forces at Hasa-e-Awal Park, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. (Getty Images/Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times)

As the Taliban returns, 20 years of progress for women looks set to disappear overnight

Azadah Raz Mohammad, Jenna Sapiano