Afghan girls, women suffer three years after US withdrawal 

washington — The hardships and heartbreak of three years of Taliban rule are reflected in the shining brown eyes of schoolgirl Parwana Malik. And on the anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, advocates say Washington should take a harder look at the plight of countless young girls who have suffered under the hard-line regime. In 2021, as the last U.S. troops were leaving after two decades in the country, Malik’s father sold her into marriage to a much older man. She was 9 years old ...