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Since storming back to power in 2021, the Taliban have been revising national education curriculum and aggressively rewriting textbooks for grades 1-12, removing subjects like formal art, women’s rights, elections and democracy, and adding religious material to the curriculum that enforces Taliban narratives.
The Middle East’s militant and terror gangs, often described as Iran’s proxy forces, may have more in common with the cartels of a globalized war than with the fighters with a cause, more typical in the 20th century.
No girls, no science, no foreign languages, only the Koran. This is how the Taliban want to erase the generation of students educated for 20 years by the “Western usurpers.” La Stampa’s Francesca Mannocchi visits one of the rigid, boys-only madrasas near Kabul.
The first instinct is to make the connection. During the referendum in the UK back in June, the cooler heads, the let’s-try-to-work-together folk, the conventionally wise were supposed to win. But, in the end, the people advocating for Britain to “Remain” in the European Union lost. And those calling for Britain’s exit, or “Brexit,” prevailed. […]
Thousands of Afghans are making their way home after years and years living as refugees in neighboring Pakistan. For many of the migrants, their native country is now a foreign place.
GREXIN OR GREXIT? Photo: Aristidis Vafeiadakis/Zuma European Union leaders welcomed an 11th-hour proposal from the Greek government last night, just hours before a crucial summit that could decide the cash-strapped country’s future in the Eurozone. The news sent European stocks up, though it’s still early to say whether a deal will be reached to avoid […]
KABUL – “No, he was not hiding the bomb in his turban or in his briefs,” a high-ranking western military officer tells me. I look at him: his face a bit pale and an uncomfortable demeanor; perhaps, despite his familiarity with the ferocity of war, shocked by the new method used in the attempted assassination […]
AL JAZEERA (Qatar), BBC NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch MAYMANA – A suicide bomb attack killed at least 41 people outside a mosque in northern Afghanistan. The worshippers had gathered for prayers to mark Eid al-Adha, reports BBC News. This important Muslim holiday, also called the Feast of Sacrifice, celebrates the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage […]
NEW YORK TIMES, CNN (USA), THE TELEGRAPH (UK), AL JAZEERA (Qatar) Worldcrunch ISLAMABAD – At least nine men, armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, stormed an air force base in the early hours of Thursday in Kamra, about 80 kilometres northwest of Islamabad, reports Al Jazeera. According to a military spokesperson, the eight attackers […]