Preface -- My father -- The Soviets -- Courtship -- Civil war -- Escape -- The refugee camp -- Karachi -- Our return -- Life under the Taliban -- September 11, 2001 ...

Niloofar Rahman traced her story during WAI2022 of becoming the first fixed-wing Afghan Air Force pilot. Aviatrix Niloofar Rahmani and her family fled Afghanistan after receiving death threats from ...

The once-unimaginable feat last year won her the US State Department's "Women of Courage Award". Niloofar Rahmani, a 25-year-old pilot lionised widely as the "Afghan Top Gun" after the 1986 Tom Cruise ...

When internationally known Afghan aviator Niloofar Rahmani first arrived in the United States in 2015, she was on her own. She fled her home after a militant group made threats on her life. She was ...

Ask Niloofar Rahmani when she knew she wanted to become a pilot, and she can recall the months that changed everything. "I would see the airplanes, the fighter jets," Rahmani recalled. "They were ...

KABUL (Reuters) - There was an angry reaction in Afghanistan to news that the first female fixed-wing pilot in the country's air force was requesting asylum in the United States after completing an 18 ...