Afghan Women Recount Torture, Horror of IS Captivity

A group of Afghan women who were held captive by Islamic State in eastern Afghanistan finally broke their silence and spoke about IS torture and mistreatment. They said the terror group of keeping them in confined quarters for days at a time.   “We were kept in dark places, not allowed to pray and our children could not cry or make noise,” one of the women told VOA’s Afghanistan Service last week.   The women were captured by IS fighters in Nangarhar province in early 2016 and...

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