Former Afghanistan footballer Fanoos Basir on Taliban takeover: No future for women like me now

The last time the Taliban ran Afghanistan, women were barred from taking part in sport, or from working outside the home, and had to cover themselves from head to toe when in public.

As a former player in the Afghanistan women's national football team, Fanoos Basir saw no future for herself under Taliban rule. She fled, and is now in a reception centre for refugees in France, mourning the life she left behind. "We had lots of dreams for our country, for our future, for the future of women in Afghanistan," she said outside the reception centre, where she arrived after being evacuated from Kabul on a French-organised flight.