No one claimed responsibility for the attack during the awards ceremony for journalists at the Tabian Farhang Centre in Mazar-e Sharif, but the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) is the primary suspect, since it is a key rival of the Taliban and has intensified its attacks of late. ISIS-K seeks to regain control over […]
Afghanistan: Taliban’s vice and virtue agent murders a teenage girl for refusing marriage proposal
Mullah Yasin was not acting according to Islamic law, which does not require a woman to marry a man simply because he wants to marry her. However, the commodification of women under Islamic law leads to the idea that a woman is being intolerably and inexcusably impertinent if she doesn’t submit to anything she is […]