Khaama Press: The Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Alexander Mantytskiy briefed the Afghan authorities regarding the reports surrounding Moscow’s attempts to establish a communication channel with Taliban in fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group affiliates in Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty December 27, 2015 The Taliban has denied that it held talks with Russian officials about efforts to combat Islamic State (IS) militants in Afghanistan as a British newspaper reported that President Vladimir Putin had met the group’s leader earlier this year. The insurgent group was responding to December 23
VOA News / December 27, 2015 Afghan officials say a militia controlled by a prominent lawmaker beheaded four Islamic State militants in the eastern province of Nangarhar. The militia members, loyal to Zahir Qadir, deputy speaker of parliament, have been fighting with IS-affiliated gunmen in the region for weeks. IS fighters recently captured four militia
VOA News Ayaz Gul December 25, 2015 ISLAMABAD—Loyalists of Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan released a new video Friday showing a massive suicide car bombing of an Afghan security outpost and several other violent acts elsewhere, including some carried out in neighboring Pakistan. The purported IS video released to reporters, titled “Khurasan, The Graveyard of
VOA News December 24, 2015 Local authorities in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province say that Sadai Khilafat Radio (Voice of Caliphate), which broadcast pro-Islamic State propaganda, has stopped broadcasting in the eastern province. Mimicking IS’s media outreach in Syria and Iraq, the Afghan branch also set up a radio station in Nangarhar, broadcasting at least one hour
Khaama Press: A U.S. drone strike has killed three militants belonging to Taliban while security forces arrested two fighters of Daesh group in eastern Nangarhar province. Click here to read more (external link).
VOA News Noor Zahid December 23, 2015 A bombing this month that killed 25 civilians and injured 70 others at a used clothing market in a Pakistani tribal region has again put the spotlight on a Sunni extremist organization that analysts say has global terror ambitions. Little publicized in the West, the predominantly Punjab-based group
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 23, 2015 A senior Russian diplomat says Russia’s interests in Afghanistan “objectively coincide” with those of the Taliban in the fight against the Islamic State extremist group. Russia has established communication channels to exchange information with the Taliban movement, Zamir Kabulov, Russian president’s special envoy on Afghanistan, told the Interfax
Khaama Press: Pakistani news agency citing a senior security official, reports that the radio’s broadcasting messages of violence and extremism are being run from three main areas in eastern Afghanistan, two locations are Nazyan and Acheen districts of Nangarhar province and the third location is in Kunar province. Click here to read more (external link).
VOA News Noor Zahid December 22, 2015 The voice of a journalist who until recently used to work at radio stations in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province can now be heard in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, and neighboring districts as the voice of Islamic State’s new “caliphate radio.” Former colleagues are quick to recognize the voice