Afghanistan, Iran, Syria.

Today's three stories you should know.

Afghanistan

“Shameful,” “tragic,” “profoundly damaging,” “entirely avoidable.” The UN today slammed the Taliban for continuing to keep girls out of school a year after it banned them from attending. “A year of lost knowledge and opportunity that they will never get back,” UN chief Antonio Guterres tweeted. “Girls belong in school. The Taliban must let them back in.” In the wake of taking Kabul, the Taliban promised girls would be educated - a promise it swiftly broke. According to UNICEF, three million girls are currently unable to complete their secondary school education in Afghanistan.

More from Al Jazeera here.

Iran

Iranian police have fired teargas on protestors at the funeral of a young woman who died while in custody of the country’s so-called morality police. Mahsa Amini, 22, was bundled into a police van for taking her hijab off, according to witnesses. Activists say she was beaten but police deny responsibility and say that she died from a heart attack. After a massive public outcry, which included condemnation from prominent Iranians and celebrities, an investigation has been launched. Some women at the protest were reported to have removed their headscarves in solidarity with Amini.

More from DW here.

Syria

Here’s something many people don’t know. There is a camp, al-Hol, in northern Syria that houses a staggering 50,000 people connected to ISIS. About 20,000 are children and most of the rest are wives and widows of ISIS fighters. But out of sight in its vastness, a number of ISIS fighters hide. U.S.-backed Syrian fighters say they have just completed a 24-hour sweep of the camp during which they detained dozens of ISIS members, confiscated weapons and freed women who had been chained and tortured. The Syrian militia that raided al-Hol says ISIS is training young boys in the camp to establish a new generation of fighters to reinvigorate the largely defeated group.

More from AP here.