But after sheltering Osama bin Laden and key al Qaeda figures in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Taliban would fall after a US-led military coalition launched an offensive on 7 October 2001. Despite being ousted from...
it plans toget rid of the position of the elected president. But, more importantly, it aims not to elevate or project a single individual to the position of supreme leader (as is the case in the neighbouring Islamic Republic of Iran). Instead, it intends ...
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She is known for her education and women's rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009, at the age of 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule, their ...
In this campaign, Pezeshkian’s advocates have sought to contrast him against the “Taliban” policies of Jalili. His campaign slogan is “For Iran,” a possible play on the popular song by the Grammy Awarding-winning Iranian singer-songwriterShervin Hajipourcalled “Baraye,” or ...
Patrice Lumumba Ford has been accused of membership in a terrorist group dubbed the Portland Seven, members of which attempted to travel to Afghanistan shortly after 9/11 in order to aid the Taliban. He refused to cooperate with the government and was sentenced to eighteen years in prison (avo...
Combine D&D, Jane Austen, and jam, and you might just get a sense of this story. Yet, like many things in life, The Spellshop is much more than these roots. It’s about a librarian forced to choose which books she likes the best, then flee from the largest library in the whole of...
Trump said he was “not looking to hurt Russia” and had “always had a very good relationship with President Putin,” a leader for whom he has expressed admiration in the past. “All of that being said, I’m going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very...
Al-Qaida's next leader will have to prove his relevance to "self-confident affiliates that have been more willing to push back against a central leadership perceived as detached from the realities of conflicts thousands of miles away," Lister wrote. Did the Taliban know al-Zawahri was...
I wonder if he is still alive or has been killed in that war torn country. I wonder if our simple acts of kindness made him softer toward us and he joined the Afghan Army to protect his homeland. Or was he embittered and joined the Taliban to take revenge on the American occupier. ...