Educated Afghan women have some of the most to lose under the fundamentalist Taliban, whose past government, overthrown by the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, sought to largely confine women to the home.
Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the Afghan National Reconciliation Council, later confirmed Ghani had left in an online video.
“He left Afghanistan in a hard time, God hold him accountable,” Abdullah said.
The proposed legislation would raise the minimum marriage age from 14 to 16 and limit the age difference between a 16-year-old and their spouse to four years.
The restitution law restricts the rights of Holocaust survivors or their descendants to reclaim property seized by the country’s former communist regime.
In a nationwide offensive that has taken just over a week, the Taliban has defeated, co-opted, or sent Afghan security forces fleeing from wide swathes of the country, even with some air support by the U.S. military.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged for the tragedy of war to never be repeated but avoided apologizing for his country’s past aggression.
A clandestine oil deal struck last year as part of the historic agreement establishing formal diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is turning Eilat into a waypoint for Emirati oil headed for Western markets.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said “elements” of a battalion were now in Kabul, the vanguard of three Marine and Army battalions that the U.S. was sending to help more Americans and their Afghan colleagues get out quickly.
Taliban militants have captured Warsaj district, the last bastion of the Afghan government in Takhar province, and further consolidated their position in the country’s northern region.
The loss of Helmand’s provincial capital comes after years of toil and blood spilled by American, British, and allied NATO forces.
