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September 8, 2021 | Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn

Taliban’s government includes designated terrorists, ex-Guantanamo detainees

The Taliban has announced the formation of an “interim government” to rule over Afghanistan. The Taliban’s regime will be known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. This is entirely unsurprising....

August 12, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn, Bill Roggio

Ghazni City falls to the Taliban

Ghazni City, the capital of a southeastern Afghan province with the same name, is the tenth provincial capital to fall to the Taliban in one week. It is strategically important terrain for the jihadists,...

August 12, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban overrun Herat City, Qala-i-Naw

The Taliban continues its blitzkrieg assault across Afghanistan, overrunning two additional provincial capitals today, including Herat City, one of the largest in Afghansitan. The Taliban took full control...

August 11, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban seizes Afghan Army corps headquarters, 2 northern airports

The Taliban seized control of the Afghan National Army’s 217th Pamir Corps headquarters, as well as airports in Kunduz City and Shibirghan, as their onslaught in the north continued on Wednesday. The...

August 10, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Farah City, Pul-i-Khumri fall to the Taliban

The Taliban’s all-out assault in northern and western Afghanistan resulted Tuesday in control of two additional provincial capitals in Farah and Baghdad provinces. That marks eight provincial capitals...

August 10, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Former headquarters of Northern Alliance falls under Taliban control

The Taliban seized control of Badakhshan province and its capital city, Faizabad, on Tuesday. The northeastern province served as headquarters to the Northern Alliance prior to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan...

August 9, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Fifth northern Afghan capital falls to the Taliban

The Taliban took control of another capital in the strategic Afghan north today as Afghan security forces and government officials fled Aybak in Samangan province. Aybak is the fifth northern capital to...

August 8, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban takes control of Afghan provincial capitals of Kunduz, Sar-i-Pul and Taloqan

The Taliban took control of the provincial capitals of Taloqan and Kunduz and Sar-i-Pul cities, the third, fourth, and fifth capitals to fall to the Taliban over the past three days. The Taliban continues...

August 7, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban takes second provincial capital

The Taliban took control of its second provincial capital today. Shibirghan, the capital of the northern province of Jawzjan and the home of warlord Marshall Abdul Rashid Dostum, fell to the Taliban. Dostum...

August 6, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban takes full control of Nimruz province, seizes capital

The Taliban took control of Zaranj, the capital of Nimruz province, without a fight. The western locale is the first provincial capital to fall under Taliban control since it launched its offensive across...

July 15, 2021 | Bill Roggio, Andrew Tobin

Nearly half of Afghanistan’s provincial capitals under threat from Taliban

With rapid gains in recent days, the Taliban now threatens 16 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals, while 18 of the provinces in their entirety are under direct threat of falling under Taliban control,...

May 25, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Analysis: Predicting the coming Taliban offensive

As the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan after two decades, the Taliban is doubling down on its efforts to retake the country by force of arms to restore its Islamic Emirate. The question isn’t whether...

April 8, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Analysis: Al Qaeda continues to operate throughout Afghanistan

July 2, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban overruns district in Afghan north

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June 23, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Al Qaeda growing stronger under Taliban’s umbrella, UN finds

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March 5, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn, Bill Roggio

UN: Al Qaeda continues to view Afghanistan as a ‘safe haven’

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April 12, 2018 | Bill Roggio

Senior ISIS leader killed in northern Afghanistan, highlighting shifting militant allegiances

The U.S. military said Monday that it has killed the senior leader of an Islamic State enclave in northern Afghanistan, highlighting an evolving fight that expanded more than a year ago after the...

April 29, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

ISAF Kills Senior IMU Leader in Afghan North

Coalition and Afghan special operations teams killed a senior Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader who coordinated operations with the Taliban and directed suicide operations in Balkh province....

April 22, 2013 | Patrick Megahan The Long War Journal

Senior IMU Leader Targeted in Samangan Province

Afghan and Coalition special operation forces conducted a raid targeting a senior leader for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) two days ago in northern Afghanistan. This is the 19th operat...

March 18, 2013 | Patrick Megahan The Long War Journal

ISAF Targets IMU Suicide Bombing Network Following Deadly Attack

Following a deadly suicide bombing in northern Afghanistan that killed 10 people on March 13, Afgha...