The Guardian (UK): Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen told the Associated Press there would be no cooperation with Washington on containing the increasingly active Islamic State group in Afghanistan. IS has taken responsibility for a number of recent attacks, including a suicide bombing on Friday that killed 46 Shia Muslims and wounded dozens as they
CBS News: Some Taliban foot soldiers are believed to have abandoned the group to join ISIS-K or al Qaeda, preferring an even more extreme — and brutal — interpretation of Islam, but these sources say the ISIS faction is working deliberately to undermine the Taliban’s authority from both inside and outside the group. Click here
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 8, 2021 A suicide blast inside a Shi’ite mosque in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz has reportedly killed and wounded at least 100 people in the bloodiest attack since the Taliban took control of most of the country in August. In a tweet, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Tolo News: The deputy minister of information and culture, Zabiullah Mujahid, downplayed the threat of Daesh, saying that the group would soon be suppressed. “We don’t call Daesh a threat, but we call it a headache,” Mujahid said. “It creates headaches in some places but is immediately taken out in every incident; (they) have been
8am: The Islamic State in Khorasan Province (IS-KP) suicide bomber, who blew himself up outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, was released from Bagram Air Base by the Taliban a few days before the suicide attack, according to multiple reports. The ISKP suicide attack on Kabul airport killed 13 US soldiers and more than 100 Afghan
8am: Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman and deputy minister of information and culture, said that on Tuesday night, October 6, Taliban forces carried out a campaign on an ISKP base in the Paghman district of Kabul. According to Mujahid, four members of ISKP group were arrested in the operation, which was carried out by special
VOA News October 3, 2021 A bomb blast outside Kabul’s main mosque Sunday afternoon killed and injured several Afghan civilians, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said. It was the first such assault in the capital since late August, when an Islamic State-Khorasan Province suicide bomber killed around 200 people, including 13 U.S. soldiers, near the Kabul
#Breaking – Ghazni chief of police executed by the #Taliban. His family has confirmed the execution. The world should have read the small print on that amnesty they announced a couple of months back.#Afghanistan #Resistance2 pic.twitter.com/dfyKoDKTdK — Afghan Resistance (@AfghanResistnce) October 1, 2021 #AFG A deadly spate of attacks in Charikar city the capital of
Abubakar Siddique Abdul Hai Kakar Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 30, 2021 Afghanistan’s Taliban militants have promised the world for years that they wouldn’t allow their country to be used as a terrorist base. In an agreement with the United States last year, the Taliban pledged specifically to not allow Al-Qaeda to “threaten the security
Jeff Seldin VOA News September 28, 2021 WASHINGTON — Twenty years of American blood and treasure spent in Afghanistan was reduced Tuesday to about six hours of testimony in the United States Senate, with the nation’s top military officer admitting that the war amounted to a “strategic failure” that in the end, perhaps, could never have