Afghanistan, the sanctuary of Jihad. The editorial by Maurizio Molinari of Sunday 15 August 2021

Four years after the dissolution of the Islamic State by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the reconquest of the Taliban of a large part of Afghanistan – they entered Kabul – is a victory of global Jihad because it gives back to the most extreme Sunni fundamentalism the territory of a nation in which to build its own model of Emirate based on the most obscurantist version of Sharia, Islamic law.