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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Putin says Taliban 'our allies' in fighting terrorism

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the Taliban, a banned group in Russia, are Moscow's "allies" in fighting terrorism because they are in control of Afghanistan. Moscow has for years fostered relations with the Taliban, despite being a banned organisation in Russia since 2003, and Putin last month called for Moscow to "build up" relations with the Taliban government. …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Afghanistan in a state of gender apartheid as women's rights are being picked apart

Hindustan Times

In March 2024 Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, broadcast a message about resuming public stoning and flogging women to death as punishments for adultery-related crimes. It was reminiscent of the Taliban’s first stint in power in Kabul from 1996-2001, during which women and girls were barred from education, employment and going out in public without a …

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9 months ago

Moscow concert hall attack: Why is ISIL targeting Russia?

Al Jazeera

Deadly attack in Moscow claimed by ISIL affiliate leaves more than 133 people dead and approximately 100 injured. Murat Aslan, a military analyst and former Turkish army colonel, said ISIL’s Afghanistan affiliate is known for its “radical and tough methodologies”. “The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Russian actions in Chechnya, Moscow’s close relationships with the Syrian and Iranian governments, and especially …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Biting those hands that fed them: How TTP, ISKP are threatening Pakistan's national security

Firstpost

Whether it is Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Islamic State-Khorasan, Al Qaeda, or the Taliban, they have all thrived in the jihadist ecosystem that the Pakistani Army has created and sustained Pakistan’s security forces have come under increasing militant attacks over the last few days. On 30 July, a suicide bomber killed at least 54 people and wounded nearly 200 others at a …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Attacks in Pakistan buttressed by region’s ‘militant’ landscape: Analysts

Al Jazeera

Armed group attacks in Pakistan have increased by 79 percent during the first half of this year, a research group says. The deadly July suicide bombing at a political rally in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa highlights a troublesome trend of violence in the region. “Furthermore, IS-K believes that JUIF is the political arm of the Afghan Taliban in …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Over the borderline: on Pakistan and its security situation with Afghanistan

The Hindu

The terror attack in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region, which has claimed 54 lives and left over 200 injured, is a grave reminder of the worsening security situation in the country’s border region with Afghanistan. The Pakistan Taliban have distanced themselves from the attack, which targeted a political rally by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, a hardline party led by Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Kashmiri ISKP Commander, Mastermind of 2020 Bombing at Kabul's Gurdwara, Killed by Taliban

News 18

The Islamic State-Khorasan has confirmed the death of Ejaz Amin Ahangar, known as Abu Usman Al-Kashmiri, a senior member of the group in southern Afghanistan. Declared a designated terrorist in January 2023, Al-Kashmiri had also asked Ijas Kallukettiya Purayil, a former dentist from Kasargod in Kerala, to carry out attacks in the state. It said he was “engaged in restarting …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Terrorists in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan

The Diplomat

In October 2021, the U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy, Dr. Colin Kahl, testified before the U.S. Congress on the status of security in Afghanistan. When asked about the potential resurgence of international terrorism emanating from the country, Kahl responded that the U.S. intelligence community assessed both al-Qaida and the Islamic State’s “Khorasan” branch “have the intent to conduct external …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Landscape of Terrorism: Back to the Future in AfPak Region

News 18

Twenty years of counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations to clean the swamps of terrorism in the AfPak region and its surrounding areas, hundreds of billions of dollars spent, and thousands of lives lost, have all come to nought within one year of Afghanistan being abandoned, nay handed over, to the Taliban. Without naming Pakistan, the Taliban have held ‘a neighbouring country …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Taliban, Al Qaeda, IS-K, TTP Want To Make Pakistan A Sharia State; Pak Army Fails To See Design

News 18

The Taliban, Tehrik-e-Taliban, Islamic State – Khorasan and Al Qaeda want to see Pakistan become a Sharia state but view the Pakistan Army as a major obstacle in their quest. Pakistan army is also playing into its hands by using the Tehrik-e-Taliban to suppress the secular and nationalist struggles spearheaded by the National Democratic Movement and Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement, the …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Militants in Afghanistan strike Pakistan army post, kill three

The Hindu

Militants in Afghanistan fired heavy weapons across the border into a Pakistani military outpost overnight, killing three personnel, the army said on April 23, in the latest violence to rattle the volatile region. The striking increase in attacks in Afghanistan — as well as in neighbouring Pakistan — highlights the growing security challenge facing Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, who swept to …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Afghanistan: Mass casualties in latest mosque bombing

The Hindu

Police in northern Afghanistan say an explosion rocked the Mawlavi Sikandar mosque north of Kunduz city on April 22. Taliban Deputy Culture and Information Minister Zabihullah Mujahid said the bombing in the town of Imam Saheb killed at least 33 people and injured another 43. The blast comes on the heels of three bomb attacks carried out across Afghanistan by …

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2 years, 8 months ago

33 killed, over 40 injured as massive blast rocks Afghanistan mosque during Friday prayers

India TV News

Highlights A massive blast ripped through an Afghan mosque in northern Afghanistan killing at least 33 people. The incident took place in Afghanistan's Kunduz province, reported news agency AFP. A massive blast ripped through an Afghan mosque in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 33 people, and injuring over 40. No one immediately claimed responsibility, but Afghanistan's Islamic State …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Islamic State morphs and grows in Pakistan, Afghanistan

Associated Press

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Basheer was a young Taliban fighter barely out of his teens when the Islamic State group took over his village in eastern Afghanistan, nearly eight years ago. Since coming to power in Afghanistan eight months ago, the Taliban have touted their success in repressing the Islamic State group, but the militants have expanded into neighboring Pakistan, stepping …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Kerala Youth Joined Islamic State Khorasan, Detonated Suicide Vest On His Wedding Night

News 18

The terrorist group Islamic State-Khorasan in its latest issue said that an Indian recruit was recently killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan, news agency Hindustan Times reported citing a report from Voice Of Khorasan, a publication launched by the terrorist group. The report also highlighted that he married a Pakistani woman who was a relative of another fighter of …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Can The Taliban Handle the Islamic State?

The Diplomat

Speaking at an Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit in mid-December, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan caused quite a stir. Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who remained in Afghanistan even as the Western-backed government of his successor Ashraf Ghani collapsed, fired back on Twitter, characterizing Khan’s remarks as “an attempt to sow discord among Afghans, and an insult to the Afghan …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Will it be IS-K now? Amrullah Saleh shreds Pakistan for receiving international 'rewards' using Afghanistan

India TV News

Highlights Former Afghanistan Vice President minces no words to slam Pakistan Pakistan has used Afghanistan for financial, strategic gains, Saleh says Pakistan has received billions in the name of war on terror, Amrullah Saleh says Former Afghanistan Vice President Amrullah Saleh has slammed Pakistan once again for using his country to strategic and financial gains. Saleh, who fled the country …

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3 years, 2 months ago

The Hindu Editorial on Islamic State vs the Taliban

The Hindu

The suicide attack on a mosque in Kunduz last week, killing at least 50 people, all of them from Afghanistan’s persecuted Shia minority, is a grave reminder that the conflict in the country is far from over. When the Taliban captured power in 1996, their main promise was to provide security to a people who were living through almost two …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Opinion | Islamic State (K): The Pak Connection

India TV News

On Saturday, the United States carried out a drone strike in Nangarhar province and claimed that it had killed a ‘planner’ of Islamic State that carried out the deadly blasts near Kabul airport on Thursday. People the world over want to know why Islamic State carried out this bloodbath near Kabul airport. The terror outfit Islamic State released the photograph …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Decoded | What is Islamic State-Khorasan that launched deadliest attack on US forces since 2011

India Today

Multiple bomb blasts at the Kabul airport on Thursday night were the deadliest terror attack on US forces in Afghanistan since 2011. Among the terror attacks that the IS-Khorasan claimed to have carried out were on Kabul University premises, firing of rockets into the Presidential Palace of Afghanistan and targeting Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul in 2020. The Taliban …

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3 years, 4 months ago

For Pak, LeT Is an All-Weather ‘Asset’ in Afghanistan It Can't Part With

The Quint

There are reports that Farooqi was on the run from the Taliban and that Pakistan did not authorise him to use Torkham and directed him instead to Chaman. There is speculation that Pakistan lost interest in the ISK and was looking to push them towards new projects. The Afghan government blamed the Taliban, which, in counter, alleged that it was …

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3 years, 6 months ago

In the List of Strategic Blunders by US, Decision to Exit Afghanistan Most Pronounced

News 18

Notwithstanding being easily the world’s most powerful nation since the end of the Second World War, much glory still cannot be ascribed to the US statecraft. Though Donald Trump in August 2017 had loudly proclaimed that “US presence in Afghanistan would be determined by conditions, not calendars,” Trump’s administration later had eagerly speeded up the US negotiations with the belligerent …

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Putin says Taliban 'our allies' in fighting terrorism

Afghanistan in a state of gender apartheid as women's rights are being picked apart

Moscow concert hall attack: Why is ISIL targeting Russia?

Biting those hands that fed them: How TTP, ISKP are threatening Pakistan's national security

Attacks in Pakistan buttressed by region’s ‘militant’ landscape: Analysts

Over the borderline: on Pakistan and its security situation with Afghanistan

Kashmiri ISKP Commander, Mastermind of 2020 Bombing at Kabul's Gurdwara, Killed by Taliban

Terrorists in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan

Landscape of Terrorism: Back to the Future in AfPak Region

Taliban, Al Qaeda, IS-K, TTP Want To Make Pakistan A Sharia State; Pak Army Fails To See Design

Militants in Afghanistan strike Pakistan army post, kill three

Afghanistan: Mass casualties in latest mosque bombing

33 killed, over 40 injured as massive blast rocks Afghanistan mosque during Friday prayers

Islamic State morphs and grows in Pakistan, Afghanistan

Kerala Youth Joined Islamic State Khorasan, Detonated Suicide Vest On His Wedding Night

Can The Taliban Handle the Islamic State?

Will it be IS-K now? Amrullah Saleh shreds Pakistan for receiving international 'rewards' using Afghanistan

The Hindu Editorial on Islamic State vs the Taliban

Opinion | Islamic State (K): The Pak Connection

Decoded | What is Islamic State-Khorasan that launched deadliest attack on US forces since 2011

For Pak, LeT Is an All-Weather ‘Asset’ in Afghanistan It Can't Part With

In the List of Strategic Blunders by US, Decision to Exit Afghanistan Most Pronounced