Daesh destroys schools in restive Afghan district

KABUL - 4 July 2017: Daesh militant group has destroyed more than a dozen schools in a restive district of northern Afghanistan, threatening students and insisting that teachers must amend their curriculum, provincial officials said, VOA reported.

Abul Rahman Mahmoodi, the acting governor of northern Jawzjan province, told VOA that a girls high school was among the destruction by Daesh militants during the past 10 days in the Darzab district.

According to provincial education officials, Daesh militants said an educational curriculum acceptable to the so-called Islamic State must be taught in areas that the group controls.