By Michael Scollon Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 13, 2024 The Taliban craves recognition by the international community that it is the only group capable of ruling and establishing security in Afghanistan. But not only has the militant group failed to achieve that status in its three years in power, rival extremist groups like Islamic State-Khorasan
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 11, 2024 An explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killed one person and injured 11 others, Taliban police spokesman Khalid Zadran told RFE/RL on August 11, an attack apparently targeting the country’s minority Hazara community. Zadran said the explosion was caused by a bomb planted in a minibus in Kabul’s Dasht-e
Tolo News: Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, has dismissed Western countries’ concerns about the activities of Daesh and other terrorist groups in Afghanistan as baseless and mere propaganda. Mujahid said that the geography of Afghanistan is under the complete control of the Islamic Emirate, and no foreign or domestic rogue groups are
By Margaret Besheer VOA News August 8, 2024 New York — The head of the United Nations counterterrorism office warned Thursday that there is a risk of the Afghanistan-based Islamic State affiliate IS-Khorasan carrying out attacks abroad. “ISIL-K has improved its financial and logistical capabilities in the past six months, including by tapping into Afghan and Central
8am: The Taliban’s fight against ISIS is much more challenging than the previous government’s fight against the Taliban. Because ISIS and the Taliban are ideologically and even in appearance so similar that they are almost indistinguishable, suppose you live under Taliban control in Afghanistan. In that case, you will certainly notice that during routine inspections
Khaama: According to reports, seven individuals were injured in an explosion caused by a grenade blast during the Muharram ceremony at the Imamzadeh Yahya shrine in central Sar-e-pol province. Local residents stated that an unidentified individual threw a grenade near the ceremony before sunset on Friday, July 19th. No group has claimed responsibility for the
Afghanistan International: Reliable sources have informed Afghanistan International that ahead of Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar’s visit to Kabul, the Taliban administration plans to relocate Pakistani Taliban members to a camp in Ghazni. Restraining Pakistani militants is Islamabad’s primary demand from the Afghan Taliban. Sources from both the Afghan Taliban and Pakistani Taliban have confirmed
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 7, 2024 ISLAMABAD — Taliban security forces in Afghanistan claimed Sunday that they had killed a key Islamic State commander in an eastern province bordering Pakistan. An official Taliban media outlet reported that counter-terrorism forces in Nangarhar had raided a hideout of Islamic State Khorasan, also known as IS-K, an Afghan-based
The Conversation: For IS-K militants, Khorasan’s symbolic power is derived from the region’s importance to the emergence of one of the great Muslim dynasties, the Abbasid caliphate, in the 8th century. Yet Islamists are not the only group active in Afghanistan and the wider region to have gained inspiration from Khorasan’s history in recent years.
8am: The Hasht-e Subh Daily’s findings from Herat, confirmed by sources within the Taliban, reveal that ISIS has significantly infiltrated the Taliban, particularly its intelligence service. These findings show that on the first day of the attack on the Mohammadia mosque, five individuals were arrested from two locations in Herat province on charges of membership