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Iran’s Al Mustafa University is a terror front

On November 7, 2025, the Daily Mail reported on an Iranian assassination plot against Israel’s ambassador to Mexico. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) orchestrated the...

Iran’s web of terror and propaganda: The case of Al Mustafa University

Last July, Israel’s ambassador to Argentina gave an interview to Latin America’s leading news platform, Infobae, where he named Edgardo Ruben (aka Suhail) Assad, Abdallah Cerrilla, and Abdul...

Recent arrests of Islamic State sympathizers highlight persistent threats to US

In the early morning hours of January 1, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran from Houston, drove his rented truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing...

From Afghanistan to America: the rising reach of the Islamic State Khorasan Province

Four years after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the threat posed by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) has expanded beyond the region, now endangering both American and European soil.

Pakistani and Tajik Taliban open training camps in Afghanistan

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (TTP) and Jamaat Ansarullah (JA) have established training camps in Afghanistan with support from Al Qaeda and the Taliban, the United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team reported.

Post-Biden, we must secure the border to address the looming national-security threat

Just two days after that 50 ISIS-linked illegal migrants were on the loose somewhere in the United States, President Biden dismissed the threat of terrorists entering our...

Analysis: Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani becomes a statesman

Khalifa Sirajuddin Haqqani in Hajj. pic.twitter.com/TGlhRiPbR9— Muhammad Jalal (@MJalalAf) June 7, 2024 ...

Nascent Afghan resistance grows in strength but not a threat to Taliban rule

The Taliban is fighting to quash a multi-faceted resistance that is gaining strength, but the movement spearheaded by the National Resistance Front (NRF) is still too nascent to pose a threat to the Taliban’s...

Opium protests catalyze anti-Taliban sentiments

Amidst a tumultuous landscape marked by escalating terrorism, deepening ethnic divisions, widespread protests, and the ravages of natural disasters, Afghanistan finds itself at a critical juncture two...

Iranian reactions to the Islamic State’s suicide bombings in Kerman

On the anniversary of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Lt. General Qassaem Soleimani’s death on January 3rd, 2024, two explosions occurred in proximity of the Kerman Martyrs...

FDD’s Long War Journal’s response to Zalmay Khalilzad’s Twitter thread

In a brief Twitter thread responding to a recent article from The Washington Post, Zalmay Khalilzad, one of the key architects of the 2020 Doha Agreement that set the stage for the collapse...

Turkistan Islamic Party leader celebrates Eid in Afghanistan

Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the head of the Al Qaeda and Taliban-linked Turkistan Islamic Party, celebrated the Eid al-Fitr holiday in Afghanistan. Abdul Haq’s public presence in Afghanistan directly contradicts...

FDD provides testimony on Afghanistan

Tehran views the rise of the Taliban with both glee and suspicion

The regime in Iran initially welcomed the triumph of the Taliban over the central government in Kabul, celebrating the humiliation of the U.S., their common foe. While Shiite Iran and the Sunni Taliban...

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....

What We Know—and Don’t Know—About ISIS-K

The group has claimed responsibility for the bombing outside the Kabul airport.

Biden’s catastrophe

Responding to the disastrous fallout of his Afghanistan withdrawal, President Joe Biden declared that the “buck stops with me” — and then spent the rest of his first public address on the crisis...

After fall of Kabul, resistance to Taliban emerges in Panjshir

The Taliban’s lightning offensive, which began immediately after President Joe Biden’s announcement of withdrawal on April 14, 2021, has resulted in a near total takeover of Afghanistan. However, resistance...

The Situation in Afghanistan Is Much Worse Than You Realize

The U.S. military is downplaying the Taliban’s gains, and the U.S. and U.N. are pretending there is a viable peace process.

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...