The Daily Beast: As well as cruelty and misogyny, Taliban rule has also brought a resurgence in the threat from ISIS. The Sunni Muslim terror group has been allowed to re-group and re-tool in Afghanistan where thousands of fighters are training and plotting attacks, despite Taliban claims that they are trying to clamp down on
8am: There is no doubt that the ISIS Khorasan operates in Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban. Although the Taliban deny this issue, occasionally they report attacks on ISIS hideouts in certain provinces, which is a significant contradiction. However, the idea of a country and a group supporting ISIS against the Taliban is at
Ariana: The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says in its new report that more than two years after the Islamic Emirate’s takeover, threats from terrorist groups still exist in Afghanistan. SIGAR has mentioned Daesh, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and al-Qaeda as serious terrorist threats. Based on SIGAR’s report, the US said that it is
Roshan Noorzai Mohammad Ahmadi VOA News January 31, 2024 WASHINGTON — The Iranian government has traced this month’s twin suicide bombings in Kerman city to ethnic-Tajik fighters of the Islamic State Khorasan Province who, experts say, are “fairly small” in number but play “an important part” in the group’s military activities. The Afghanistan-based branch of the
Khaama: A British newspaper, known as “The Sunday Guardian,” has reported, citing informed sources, that the Pakistani army is allegedly facilitating the movement of ISIS-Khorasan branch militants into Afghanistan. According to the report published on Sunday, it is claimed that the Pakistani military is assisting members of the ISIS-Khorasan branch in crossing the border and
8am: Over the last decade, Tajikistan’s foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) have brought their homeland under negative limelight on numerous occasions. The most notorious of them all is Gulmurod Khalimov, who became the IS Minister of War after joining the group in 2015. Before becoming a high-ranking terrorist, he served as the head of the special
Khaama: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in its latest report on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, covering the months of October and December 2023, has documented several targeted attacks against Hazaras and stated that the perpetrators of some of these attacks remain unidentified. According to this report, targeted attacks against Hazaras
Ariana: Mawlavi Abdul Kabir, the prime minister’s deputy for political affairs, said on Sunday that Daesh has been suppressed in Afghanistan and that border security has been ensured more now than ever before. According to a statement by the prime minister’s office, Kabir said in a meeting with the EU’s Chargé d’affaires in Kabul, Raffaella
Khaama: On Friday, January 19th, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence revealed that Adel Arif, the perpetrator of the Kabul University attack in 2020, had a role in the recent attacks in Kerman, Iran. Despite being sentenced to execution by the previous Afghan government, Adel Arif was released from Bagram Prison following the Taliban’s resurgence in
Khaama: Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, Iran’s special representative in Kabul, believes that despite the U.S.’s clear failure in Afghanistan, they continue to try to destabilize the country and support terrorism, especially ISIS. Qomi made these statements on Tuesday, January 16th, during an interview with the IRNA news agency in Islamabad. He added, “The more Afghanistan moves toward