CNN.com - RSS Channel - HP HeroAfghan women report forced marriages to flee country amid Taliban takeover, sources say

US officials processing Afghan refugees abroad recently alerted the State Department to instances in which women and girls were forced into marriage or arrived with male partners posing as their husbands to be eligible for evacuation and escape the Taliban, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

September 04, 2021 at 03:02AM https://ift.tt/3DPy0r9 officials processing Afghan refugees abroad recently alerted the State Department to instances in which women and girls were forced into marriage or arrived with male partners posing as their husbands to be eligible for evacuation and escape the Taliban, according to two sources familiar with the matter.