Khorasan province

September 11, 2024 | Will Selber, Bill Roggio

After 9/11, We Went to War Against the Terrorists. The Terrorists Won.

We retreated. They survived. And we’re deluding ourselves otherwise.

August 4, 2024 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

The Islamic Republic prepares to avenge Ismail Haniyeh

“Bloodlust” is a term cascading across the Iranian media space this week: “Bloodlust is commanded,” declared Jam-e Jam newspaper, connected to Iran’s state-sanctioned...

June 10, 2024 | Janatan Sayeh |

ISKP’s transnational reemergence

By leveraging its stronghold in Afghanistan, in conjunction with its networks in Central and South Asia, the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) is reemerging as a transnational actor with the capacity...

August 29, 2022 | Bill Roggio |

One year after U.S. withdrawal, resistance to Taliban rule grows

One year after the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, resistance to the Taliban’s brutal regime has organized in northern Afghanistan and is beginning to challenge the Taliban’s...

September 20, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Islamic State bombs Taliban convoys in eastern Afghanistan

The Islamic State’s Khorasan Province has claimed responsibility for a series of bombings that targeted Taliban convoys throughout the city of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province. The group claims...

May 21, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

U.S. commander confirms: al Qaeda operating ‘across’ Afghanistan

Al Qaeda is operating “across the country” and not confined to one region, the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan confirmed. General Austin Miller, the commander of Resolute Support...

February 21, 2018 | Thomas Joscelyn

Not So Fast

On January 19, the Pentagon released its new National Defense Strategy. The second paragraph of the 14-page declassified summary painted a dire picture. “Today, we are emerging from a perio...

March 21, 2016 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Khamenei’s Latest Moves to Solidify Hardline Gains

The legendary cleric Abbas Vaez Tabasi died this month after thirty-seven years supe...

June 19, 2015 | |

The IRGC v Rohani: Spy v Spy

While the United States has pinned its hopes for a ne­gotiated solution to the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme on Iranian President Hassan Rohani’s government, the “...

December 12, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Iran’s Supreme Censor

The Blind Man’s friend:  Don’t suffer because of the past. You censored books for the sake of God. .  .  . What is...