A recipient of the U.S. State Department’s “Women of Courage” award in 2015, Capt. Rahmani had been a symbol of efforts to improve the situation of women in her country, more than a decade after the fall of the Taliban regime.<\/p>\n
Mohammad Radmanish, a defense ministry spokesman, said the government hoped that her request would be denied by U.S. authorities who have spent billions trying to build up Afghan security forces.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I guess she had just completed an 18-month course in the US at great cost to the US and Afghanistan, and now she doesn’t want to return to the country she promised to defend. She must have understood the risks when she began. They should really stop bringing those guys here to train – they don’t want to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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