Analysis: Al Qaeda continues to operate throughout Afghanistan
Badakhshan Province
NDS kills Al Qaeda commander in eastern Afghanistan
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Taliban again promotes its Badakhshan training camp
In a video released yesterday on Voice of Jihad, the Taliban celebrated its “newly graduated martyrs and Mujahideen from [the] Abu Ubaidah Ibn Jarrah Training Center.” This camp is known to...
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How China’s Repressive Policies Could Fuel the Jihad
The CCP’s harsh treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang could very well drive more people into the arms of both al-Qaeda and ISIS.
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Taliban video highlights recent raids in Zabul
Taliban enter Mizan district center (captured at end of July 2019), tour it. Note motorcycle column. Looks to be over 100 fighters. Tour occurs in broad daylight. Fighters are on radios. No Afghan forces...
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Several districts change hands as fighting rages in northern Afghanistan
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Suicide bombing in Kabul is the latest in Taliban wave of attacks
The Taliban killed at least 10 people, including an American and a Romanian soldier, and wounded 42 more in a suicide bombing near a National Directorate of Security checkpoint in the Afghan capital of...
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Taliban promotes its ‘Preparation for Jihad’
1) From Taliban’s new ‘Preparation for Jihad’ video: Taliban fighters going through obstacle course, reminiscent if al Qaeda training camp videos. Note the Taliban fighters are wearing...
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Taliban threatens Panjshir province
Afghan security forces scrambled to defend the relatively peaceful and secure province of Panjshir this week after the Taliban seized a district in neighboring Badakhshan. The narrative stemming fr...
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UN Security Council continues to report on al Qaeda-Taliban alliance
Al Qaeda’s training camps in pre-9/11 Afghanistan. The group was never uprooted from the country and remains closely allied with the Taliban to this day. Since July 2018, the UN Security Council has published...
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Taliban storms district headquarters in Zabul province
The Taliban overran Mizan district in the southern province of Zabul today. The district was under siege for more than one year before it fell, according to the Taliban.
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Taliban seizes remote district in Afghan north
The Taliban overran a remote district in the northern province of Badakhshan today after seizing a lapis lazuli mine there last week. Security in Badakhshan has gradually worsened over the past five y...
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Al Qaeda growing stronger under Taliban’s umbrella, UN finds
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UN: Al Qaeda continues to view Afghanistan as a ‘safe haven’
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Taliban and Islamic State cause majority of civilian casualties in Afghan war, UN finds
More civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2018 than in any of the previous nine years, according to a newly released report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). The majority...
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Increased Targeting of IMU Continues in Afghan North
During an operation in the northern province of Baghlan on April 3, Afghan and Coalition special operations forces arrested another leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The raid was the...
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IMU Commander Captured in Kunduz
The International Security Assistance Force has captured a commander in the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movem...
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2 IMU Leaders Captured in Northern Afghanistan
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) captured two Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commanders during separate raids in northern Afghanistan over the past two days. Special operations...
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ISAF Kills and Captures IMU Operatives in Afghan North
Afghan and Coalition troops killed a facilitator for the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) during a raid in Afghanistan's northern province of Takhar yesterday. In a separ...
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ISAF Kills IMU/Taliban District Commander in Afghan North
Coalition and Afghan forces killed a dual-hatted Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Taliban district commander during a raid in northern Afghanistan four days ago. The International Secu...