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MORNING BRIEFING: Detectives say "proactive policing" is underway to prevent retaliation attacks after two women were fatally shot in a car in Sydney's south-west.

Before her modest restart to life in Melbourne, Maryam Nabavi was a brave female journalist in Kabul when the Taliban overran the Afghan capital on August 15, 2021, forcing her — like so many of her peers — to flee for life.

A year since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, charities warn those who fled must not be forgotten, after Home Secretary Priti Patel voiced her "tremendous pride" in the much-criticised rescue operation in Kabul

Former Afghan security personnel with sensitive knowledge of U.S. operations left behind by the American evacuation operation are vulnerable to recruitment or coercion by Russia, China and Iran, Republican lawmakers said on Sunday, noting that President Joe Biden's administration failed to prioritize evacuating them.

The memo is being released one year after the Biden administration evacuated troops from the region.

The White House said the report is "riddled with inaccurate characterizations, cherry-picked information, and false claims."

August 15 marks one year since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. Since then the economy has spiralled into decline and families are increasingly resorting to selling young girls into forced marriages.

‘I really hope the situation gets better and women can have their basic rights in Afghanistan,’ she said.

Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan a year ago, it has barred girls from school, required women to wear burqas in public and banned women from travelling without a male chaperone.