The Diplomat: The so-called Islamic State’s Khurasan province (ISIS-Khurasan), which includes Afghanistan and Pakistan, remains a notional entity a year after its establishment. It consists mainly of peripheral Afghan and Pakistani Taliban defectors who have fused with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and are clustered in remote portions of northeastern Afghanistan bordering Pakistan. Click here
VOA News Jeff Seldin February 2, 2016 WASHINGTON—American troops and money will need to be in Afghanistan for years to come in order to prevent the unrelenting spread of terrorism, according to the latest, dour assessment from a top U.S. general. “Now, more than ever, the United States should not waiver on Afghanistan,” General John
AOPNEWS | February 2, 2016 Badakhshan: Twenty-one Taliban fighters have been captured in Tishkan district, Afghan security officials said today. Badghis: An insider attack in Qadis district left 4 policemen dead, according to government officials. The attackers were 9 fellow policemen who, after shooting their fellow officers, took their weapons, abandoning their check post. Helmand:
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 2, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Authorities in Afghanistan said Tuesday that airstrikes conducted with the support of the United States in a restive eastern region have destroyed an Islamic State radio station along with its Internet communications and other facilities. The air raids also killed 29 Islamic State fighters, including five staff at
Press TV / February 1, 2016 The United States has carried out airstrikes against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in Afghanistan, expanding Washington’s military campaign against the militants beyond Iraq and Syria. The US military has conducted at least a dozen operations in the past three weeks against militants aligned with Daesh in Afghanistan, theNew
VOA News Zabihullah Ghazi January 27, 2016 JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN—The Islamic State group in Afghanistan has added new programming to its radio broadcasts that the Afghan government has failed to take off the air. The IS-run FM station “Voice of the Caliphate,” which broadcasts from a remote mobile transmitter on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, this week added
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 25, 2016 Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has promised to “bury” the Islamic State (IS) group, whose Afghan offshoot has clashed with government forces and Taliban militants. Speaking in a BBC interview during a visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Ghani said the IS group was “not an
Khaama Press: According to the local media reports, the three men were executed after they escaped from the city of Mosul, 405 km north of Baghdad. The execution comes almost a month after the terror group burned a number of its fighters alive for abandoning the city of Mosul. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV / January 24, 2016 At least 16 people have lost their lives when US-led foreign forces carried out separate drone strikes in Afghanistan’s embattled eastern province of Nangarhar. Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for the provincial governor, said two aerial assaults struck Abdulkhel and Bandar areas of Achin district in the province, which is located 120 kilometers (74
1TV: Afghanistan will be the burying ground of Islamic State group, President Ashraf Ghani said during World Economic Forum on Friday. “We are a people of resilience and we will overcome,” Ghani said. “Afghanistan will be the burying ground of Daesh (IS) and the rest of them (terrorists).” He cited a proverb saying: “Revenge is sweetest when