Omar Sharifi

Omar Sharifi is a PhD Candidate at Boston University in the department of Anthropology. He is a member of the advisory board of the Civil Society Development Center (CSDC) and of the Board of Directors of the Afghan Alumni Association and of Afghanistan 1400. He is also a member of the Afghan 21 Young Leaders Forum. He is an Asia Society Fellow. Sharifi lives between Kabul and Boston.

Taliban and Al-Qaeda, the blurred line between insurgency and terrorism

Omar Sharifi Jan 20, 2016

In June 2015, almost fourteen years after the start of the US-led war against Al-Qaeda and its Afghan Taliban host, the White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz referred to the latter as “armed insurgents”, and not “terrorists.” This…