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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson. And this is five things you need to know Tuesday, the 28th of September, 2021. Today, testimony about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan plus Congress scrambles to avoid a government shutdown and more. Here are some of the top headlines. Officials from the Pentagon will testify in front of Congress today about Afghanistan. The US withdrew its military from the country at the end of last month after helping to evacuate more than 100,000 people from the country, largely Afghan civilians. Americans overwhelmingly supported ending the 20-year war, but there were widespread criticisms of how the Biden Administration and Pentagon pulled out. And lawmakers from both sides of the aisle blasted a number of moves. There was chaos in and around the Kabul airport, which the US controlled through August 31st. After the Taliban retook Afghanistan last month, many Afghans who helped the United States and allies during the war were immediately desperate to leave and crowded the airport. Some people even died clinging to the outside of a military plane as it took off. In the last days of evacuations, an ISIS cell in the country then killed nearly 200 people in a terror attack at the airport, including 169 Afghans and 13 US service members. The US responded with drone strikes and killed at least 10 innocent members of one Afghan family, including eight children. The Pentagon has acknowledged the killings and apologized, but it's not clear if that will be the end of that. What the US military did may have been a war crime and international charges could still come. There's also the issue of the Afghanistan that the United States left behind. The Taliban has only been loosely recognized globally as in power and prosecutors from the International Criminal Court in the Hague are already looking into crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, particularly surrounding the treatment of women. The United Nations held a panel last week raising concerns in particular about schooling, something girls after a certain age were prohibited to attend during the Taliban's last rule in the late 1990s. And just this week, the Taliban announced that women will not be allowed to attend one of the country's best universities, Kabul University. Fawzia Koofi, a deputy parliamentary speaker in Afghanistan told the UN that the Taliban is again telling women and girls that there will be temporary stops to education, something she says they did last time in power. I'm hearing that unfortunately the excuses the Taliban make right now for women, banning girls from education and university is for them to wait until a proper time when education environment is safe for them. This is exactly the same thing that happened to me and thousands of other girls when we wanted to go to university and school in 1996, that temporary measures to make the environment safe last for five years and became a permanent measure.


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