
Planes, guns, night-vision goggles: The Taliban's new US-made war chest
India Today
Along with seizing most of Afghanistan, the Taliban has also managed to get their hands on weapons and equipment left behind by fleeing Afghan forces, including armoured vehicles, aircraft, rockets, night-vision goggles and drones.
About a month ago, Afghanistan's ministry of defence posted on social media photographs of seven brand new helicopters arriving in Kabul delivered by the United States. "They'll continue to see a steady drumbeat of that kind of support, going forward," US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters a few days later at the Pentagon.
Women are treated in the new penal code as being on the same level as "slaves", with provisions allowing either "slave masters" or husbands to administer discretionary punishment, including beatings, to their wives or subordinates. This aspect of the code has drawn particular alarm from rights groups.

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