Ayaz Gul VOA News December 10, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Saturday its security forces had intercepted and killed four Islamic State operatives in a remote mountainous district near the Afghanistan border. The provincial counterterrorism department said the slain men were linked to Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), a regional affiliate of the self-proclaimed Islamic State
dpa: Five people were killed after the Taliban attacked a suspected hideout of the Islamic State (IS) militant group overnight in the northern part of the Afghan capital, Kabul, Taliban authorities announced on November 13. Click here to read more (external link). Related Taliban Claims It Killed 5 ISKP Members in Last Night’s Operation in
8am: The gunfighting took place on Tuesday morning (October 18th) in the alley of Deputy Jumaaldin of the second district of Kunduz city and continued for four hours. According to the sources, a group of ISKP fighters had moved into a house in this neighborhood, and after revealing their location, they started fighting the Taliban.
Akmal Dawi VOA News October 5, 2022 Amid an intensified terror campaign by the Islamic State Khorasan (ISK) group in Afghanistan which has killed dozens of civilians this week, Taliban authorities claim they have captured the group’s liaison for Europe. On Tuesday, the Taliban’s intelligence agency released a video confession of an alleged ISK member
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 2, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber struck a packed mosque in western Afghanistan Friday, killing at least 18 worshippers, including a prominent cleric loyal to the ruling Taliban. Police officials said the influential slain scholar, Mujibur Rahman Ansari, was leading afternoon prayers at his Guzargah Mosque in the city of
By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 24, 2022 As the Taliban intensifies its war against Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), religious clerics associated with the rival militant groups are being caught in the crossfire. IS-K militants have been blamed for the assassination of several pro-Taliban clerics in Afghanistan in recent weeks. The Taliban has also been
8am: According to local sources, the conflict between the Taliban and the attackers continued for half an hour, which ended after the death of 2 Taliban fighters and 3 attackers. Local Taliban officials in Kandahar consider this attack to be of ISKP affiliates. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 11, 2022 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A suicide bombing Thursday at a religious seminary in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, killed a prominent Taliban cleric known for his fiery speeches against Islamic State militants. A spokesman for the ruling Taliban confirmed the assassination of Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani in what he said was a “brutal
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 4, 2022 A gunbattle in Afghanistan’s capital on August 3 left at least five people dead, including two Taliban police officers, the Taliban spokesman for the Kabul police chief said. The gunbattle erupted after police launched an operation against a hideout in the Karti Sakhi neighborhood in western Kabul heavily
Ariana: In an interview with an Indian news channel on Friday, July 29, Afghanistan’s acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani said that the al-Qaeda network does not have a military presence in Afghanistan and that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) [Taliban] is bound by its commitments to the international community to fight ISIS. Haqqani added