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  • The US-Taliban peace agreement

    02/04/2019 2:50:58 PM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 34 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 3/2/19 | Dr. Mordechai Kedar
    It was reported recently that the USA and the Taliban have reached a peace agreement on Afghanistan that will allow US forces to leave that country 17 years after they invaded it on October, 2001, less than a month after 9/11. Al Qaeda..... A large number of the terrorists that filled the country were killed, some were captured and some escaped to other countries. The impression left by the swift operation was that the Taliban would never gain back its strength and that Afghanistan would never again be a terror state. And then last week it was reported that America...
  • Origin of Kalash inferred with Eurogenes K=10 "test" calculator

    08/03/2013 3:18:58 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 29 replies
    Dodecad 'blog ^ | Monday, October 31, 2011 | Dienekes
    Why are the Kalash important?There are three reasons why the Kalash are important in the study of Eurasian prehistory: Their mountainous habitat contributed to isolation and relative immunity from historical population movementsTheir non-Islamic religion has definitely preserved them from recent gene inflowTheir language is unique within the Indo-Aryan family, and it often considered today as part of a separate Dardic family of Indo-Iranian in addition to the more populous Iranian and Indo-Aryan families.The Kalash are crucial for those interested in the origins of Indo-Iranians, and the fact that they are, indeed, a simple West/South Asian mix is not without significance...