By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, July 12, 2023Taliban’s Interior Minister in a letter stated that Islamic State (ISIS) militants are planning to launch attacks targeting senior Taliban leaders, provincial governors, officials and more. Abdul Mateen Qaneh, Taliban’s spokesperson for the interior ministry on Tuesday, July 11, confirmed the content of the letter but avoided providing further details about the potential threats. The letter was delivered on July 9 to the Taliban’s police command throughout…
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By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, June 7, 2023Islamic State (ISIS) fighters claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s car bomb attack in north-eastern Badakhshan province, which killed the Taliban deputy governor and his driver. On Tuesday, ISIS wrote on Telegram, saying its fighters succeeded to detonate a bomb targeting Taliban deputy governor Mawlavi Nisar Ahmad Ahamdi, which also left six others injured, according to provincial officials. Mazudeen Ahmadi, the head of the Information and Culture Department of…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press,June 2, 2023Afghan security forces claim to have killed a senior ISIS commander along with his accomplice in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday, state-run Bakhtar news agency reported. The killed ISIS commander’s name is said to be ‘Turab’ who was killed during a special operation conducted by the Taliban security forces. The operation was conducted on Wednesday evening in Wuch Tangi village of Shiwa district in eastern Nangarhar province, according…
By Karoun Demirjian and Eric Schmitt in The NY Times, Apr 26, 2023WASHINGTON — The Taliban have killed the leader of the Islamic State cell responsible for the suicide bombing at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and as many as 170 civilians, the White House said on Tuesday. Four senior American officials said that U.S. intelligence analysts became aware in early April that the mastermind of…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Mar 17, 2023Sheikh Abdul Rahim Muslimdost, in a recent interview with al-Mersaad Media, claimed that Pakistan is financing the ISIS group in Afghanistan. Muslimdost was a former founding member of the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) who surrendered to the Taliban in March 2022, according to the media reports. In his interview, he claimed that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba provided 50 Lakh Pakistani Rupee to the ISKP in 2015. He…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press online, Feb 14, 2023Taliban senior spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said that Islamic Emirate security forces destroyed an important ISIS hideout in the capital Kabul late Monday night. According to Zabiullah Mujahid, Taliban security personnel stormed an important Daesh (ISIS) hideout during a special operation in provincial district 8th of Kabul late Monday night, which resulted in the death of some key members of Daesh, which included some foreign nationals…
Report in Khaama Press, Feb 14, 2023Dr. Mahmut Cengiz, an assistant professor at George Mason University in an analytical report claims that ISIS is rapidly growing, and will take the lead in conducting terror attacks in Afghanistan. Dr. Changis believes that the Islamic Emirate has not been successful in establishing a strong government and the Daesh (ISIS) is trying to fill the vacuum. He has written on the ‘Home Security Today’ website that prior to…
report in Khaama Press online, Dec 12, 2022Following an operation by intelligence forces in Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, local officials claimed to have discovered and destroyed an ISIS hideout. The intelligence operation reportedly took place in Jalalabad’s police district 4 on late Sunday, December 11, after obtaining intelligence information, according to the state-run Bakhtar News Agency. According to the local officials cited in Bakhtar’s report, during the…
By Saqalain Eqbal in Khaama Press, Oct 23, 2022 at 01:20 PMThe Taliban government security authorities claim that the group’s forces have killed 4 ISIS militants including 2 commanders in the northeastern Afghan province of Takhar. Qari Aminullah Tayeb, commander of the Taliban 217th Omari Army Corps in the Northeast Zone, was quoted as saying that they found an ISIS hideout in Takhar during a joint operation on Saturday, October 22, by the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar…
Report in The daily star, Mar 30, 2017 Another day, another militant hideout. Three to be precise. Hours after the nearly five-day siege at a militant den in Sylhet ended on Tuesday evening, police said they tracked down three more terror hideouts — two in Sylhet’s neighbouring district Moulvibazar and one in Comilla. Police cordoned off the two Moulvibazar dens in Nasirpur and Borohat areas early hours yesterday and the one in Comilla in the…
The devastating suicide attack on Shah Noorani shrine in Khuzdar has underscored the fact that Islamist threat in Balochistan is both evolving and expanding. Initially inter-sectarian, the militant landscape has, apparently, also acquired intra-sectarian character. Similarly, it is political too. The toxic ideology of militant Deobandism under the unsavoury influence of Wahabism gives rise to Islamist terror in Balochistan. If the year 1999 is taken as starting point of Islamist perpetrated violence in Balochistan, the…