Pieter Van Ostaeyen
historian and Arabist and a PhD candidate in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Univeristy of Leuven
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Taliban police are seen at a checkpoint on September 24, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)