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: 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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Afghanistan Content Report: November 9–November 15, 2024

Hamid Sufi, a leader in the Jamaat-e-Islami political party, was killed in Inayat, Bajaur. ISIS took credit for the attack the same day. The Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for an attack on a Quetta train station that killed at least 24 people and injured almost 50 others.
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Afghanistan Content Report: November 2–November 8, 2024

A gas station was set on fire in Kabul, resulting in several deaths and injuries. While ISIS has not claimed this attack, posts allege that ISIS may be responsible.
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Afghanistan Content Report: October 26–November 1, 2024

A Taliban security official who investigated “economic crimes” was murdered by unidentified individuals in Laghman province. The Taliban are hiding the number of their soldiers and officials killed in combat and have asked families to conceal the causes of death and hold funerals at night.
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Afghanistan Content Report: October 19–25, 2024

The Taliban wants good relations with Iran and India. Seven Taliban soldiers were arrested in Takhar and accused of secretly cooperating with ISIS-K. Unidentified explosions in Herat, Kabul, and Maymana.
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Afghanistan Content Report: September 28–October 18, 2024

A Taliban commander, Naik Mohammad Turabi, was killed in Paktika (September 30). The Taliban wants friendly relations with Iran and Russia.
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Afghanistan Content Report: September 21–27, 2024

Afghanistan: A Taliban officer from the Ministry of the Interior was killed in Mazar-i-Sharif by unidentified gunmen. Pakistan: Fighting between unidentified militants and Pakistani security forces in Mir Ali Tehsil, North Waziristan.
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Afghanistan Content Report: September 14–20, 2024

Human Rights Watch has noted that over 700 Shiite Hazaras have been killed in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover. The Taliban is afraid that ISIS has infiltrated their ranks and that Taliban members will defect. There was an attack using explosives in Kabul.
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Afghanistan Content Report: September 7–13, 2024

September 12 ISIS-K massacre, between Daikandi and Ghor provinces in central Afghanistan, of Hazara Shiites who were returning from a pilgrimage to Karbala. Attacks on Pakistani police officers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa who have been protesting the lack of security for police personnel and the alleged interference of the armed forces in local law enforcement matters. The Taliban alleged that 16 ISIS fighters left bases in Pakistan’s Balochistan province and were headed towards Kandahar.
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Afghanistan Content Report: August 24–September 6, 2024

September 2 attack on the Taliban public prosecutor's office. The head of the Taliban's prison system announced that they were holding 11,000 detainees, including 1,000 women and 800 children. The Taliban falsely claimed to have killed an ISIS-K leader (August 25).
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