Khaama Press: According to Khaista Khan Akhtarzada, governor of Gomal District, the clashes erupted when Taliban opposed Daesh (ISIS) commanders who were planning to open offices in the area. Click here to read more (external link).
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 10, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A senior Pakistani intelligence official admitted on Wednesday that the Islamic State group (IS) is a growing threat in Pakistan, according to media reports. It was the strongest admission by a high-ranking government official of an IS footprint in Pakistan. Officially, Islamabad has consistently denied that IS has
VOA News Zia-U-Rahman Hasrat February 8, 2016 JALALABAD—Islamic State has started cutting down trees in some parts of eastern Afghanistan in a timber-smuggling operation to neighboring Pakistan, according to Afghan officials and tribal leaders. Locals in the Afghan province say the terror group has imported tree-cutting machines and has been cutting trees in the Achin,
New York Times Sunday Review: Pakistan is intervening in a number of foreign conflicts. Its intelligence service has long acted as the manager of international mujahedeen forces, many of them Sunni extremists, and there is even speculation that it may have been involved in the rise of the Islamic State. Click here to read more (external link).
VOA News / February 6, 2016 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD – Authorities in Afghanistan said Saturday national security forces and U.S. drone strikes have jointly killed at least 28 Islamic State (IS) fighters in a restive eastern region bordering Pakistan. The overnight attacks happened in Achin and Batikot districts of the province of Nangarhar, said local officials.
Khaama Press: These figures are inclusive of all active Daesh members, both fighters and support elements, according to a commentary piece, adding that the loyalists of the terror started popping up in the second half of 2014 all over Afghanistan as a result of commanders of the Taliban, Hizb-i Islami and other armed groups switching sides.
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghanistan’s spy chief visited Pakistan Thursday for bilateral talks with his Pakistani counterparts on building mutual trust for effective intelligence sharing and counterterrorism cooperation. Intelligence sources told VOA that Masoud Andarabi, the head National Directorate of Security (NDS), met with Lt. General Rizwan Akhtar, the Director General of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
Bloomberg: The Afghan militant group that sheltered Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11 attacks is closing the door to the Islamic State. The Taliban is giving up on holding talks with the group and will prevent it from gaining a foothold in Afghanistan, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed said by e-mail. He accused the media and intelligence
AOPNEWS | February 3, 2016 Ghazni: Taliban (Mansur faction) announced today that a landmine they had planted hit an Afghan army tank in the Qarabagh district. They reported that the explosion killed two Afghan government soldiers. Khost: A magnetic bomb explosion left one person wounded in the capital today, according to Afghan officials. Kunduz: Local
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 3, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—Authorities in Pakistan have arrested the suspected main facilitator of last month’s attack on a university that killed at least 21 people, mostly students. Intelligence sources confirmed to VOA on Wednesday that security operatives detained the suspect from an area not far from the northwestern town of