Afghanistan Content Report

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) regularly compiles the propaganda output of al-Qaeda and ISIS affiliates operating in Afghanistan to help inform the public understanding of the evolving terrorist dynamics in Afghanistan. CEP's Afghanistan Content Report series ensures this raw material is available to the wider expert and terrorism analyst community, including through a rough translation of the original texts into English, which can build long-term analysis of the development of the propaganda strategies of these groups and therefore support a thorough analysis of the terrorism threat.

Afghanistan Content Report: February 15–21, 2025

An explosion, detonated by unidentified individuals, targeted a Taliban special forces commander in Taloqan. An explosive detonated “in the middle of a popular Shiite market in the Mazar-i-Sharif area.” The Taliban fought with an unnamed group of militants in Lashkar Gah, Helmand.
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Afghanistan Content Report: February 8–February 14, 2025

A Taliban vehicle was damaged by an explosive device in Taloqan. The UN declared that ISIS poses a threat in Afghanistan as well as globally and that “foreigners are flocking to Afghanistan” to join ISIS-K.
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Afghanistan Content Report: February 1–February 7, 2025

Unidentified gunmen killed Abdul Basir Ghiyathi, the head of a road construction company, in Faryab. There was an explosion in front of the Taliban police headquarters in Taloqan. A Shiite individual was murdered in Herat.
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Afghanistan Content Report: January 25–January 31, 2025

Unknown individuals killed 13 members of the same family in Alishiro district of Khost province. Unidentified armed men kidnapped Samad Sherzad, a Shiite Hazara, who is the son of the former director of national security for the Miramor district in the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. One person was killed and a Taliban vehicle was damaged when an explosive detonated in front of the office of the governor of Takhar province.
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Afghanistan Content Report: January 18–January 24, 2025

A Chinese citizen who worked as a manager at a gold mine in Takhar was killed. ISIS claimed credit for the attack the same day. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Abdul Hakim Haqqani for alleged persecution of women and girls.
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Afghanistan Content Report: January 11–January 17, 2025

A Taliban soldier was abducted in Nangarhar province and executed by unknown individuals. The Taliban considers the persecution of Uyghur Muslims to be an internal Chinese matter. The Taliban receive support from the U.S. to fight against ISIS-K. An American died under unclear circumstances in Kabul.
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Afghanistan Content Report: January 4–January 10, 2025

Two Taliban-affiliated clerics were killed in Baghlan on January 7. ISIS took credit for the attack the same day. Pakistan has allegedly killed at least 46 people in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, near the border. The Taliban has banned the book Kitab al-Tawheed [The Book of Monotheism] by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab.
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Afghanistan Content Report: December 21, 2024–January 3, 2025

Unidentified individuals attacked a Taliban vehicle near Taloqan, Takhar, killing one Taliban member. Unidentified individuals killed a Taliban security deputy commander, Qari Zalmai, in Parwan. An alleged “Sufi school” was lit on fire in Nangarhar province by unidentified individuals. Unidentified individuals attacked a Taliban checkpoint using explosives in Kabul.
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Afghanistan Content Report: December 14–December 20, 2024

The Taliban has carried out public floggings in Kunduz, Paktika, and Paktia provinces. Georgette Gagnon, the deputy special representative of the secretary-general for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), visited Kandahar province and met with the deputy governor, Mohammad Sadeq Enqelabi. There were two explosions in Parwan on December 19, including one outside Bagram Airfield. There was an additional explosion the same day in Kabul.
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Afghanistan Content Report: November 16–December 6, 2024

ISIS took credit for attacking a Sufi shrine in Baghlan province, killing ten people, including Taliban members. ISIS killed Ijaz Wazir, a religious and political leader for the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party in South Waziristan.
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