Afghanistan Content Report

March 1–7, 2025

Please note that all items in this issue concern ISIS-K

Table of contents

1. ISIS Al-Naba Newsletter Edition 486, Published March 6, 2025
2. Pro-ISIS Online Chatter
3. ISIS Amaq/Nashir Statements

Main points (Pro-ISIS Online Chatter)

Afghanistan

• Online ISIS supporters accused the Taliban of supporting and protecting religious minority groups in Afghanistan.
• An attack on a Moscow synagogue, allegedly planned by members of ISIS-K, was disrupted.

Pakistan

• Online ISIS supporters were awaiting confirmation that the terrorist group was responsible for killing two Pakistani members of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam in Balochistan.

1. ISIS Al-Naba Newsletter Edition 485, Published March 6, 2025

• There were no ISIS-K news items in this week’s al-Naba.

2. Pro-ISIS Online Chatter

• March 2: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram criticizing the Taliban for the visit of an American pornographic actress to Afghanistan. See https://www.afintl.com/en/202503022847.

“#Report. An example of the security that the militias are proud of is that such [pornographic] actresses flood Afghanistan and present a good image of the Taliban to the world.

“Of course, such reports are only unfamiliar to the general public, but since 2013, the militia has been building this same tunnel in Doha, Qatar, the Kremlin in Moscow, and Istanbul, Turkey!

“The gun [hanging by a sling] on the prostitute’s neck is the Taliban’s pistol [sic], which the believers are accused of using in the name of Khawarij.”

• March 2: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram condemning the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and referring to Hamid ul Haq Haqqani, killed in a suicide bombing on February 28, as a martyr for the greater Ummah [global Muslim community of believers]. The post claimed that if indeed Haqqani was a “martyr of the Ummah,” it was a community of spies and traitors.

“#Report. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had also issued a statement about him [Hamid ul Haq Haqqani] and called him a martyr of the Ummah! If there is such an Ummah of the TTP that includes intelligence brokers and sellers of believers like Aafia [Siddiqui’s] sisters as martyrs, then it should be understood that they have abandoned Islam and have bought the Ummah of the British, Genghis [Khan], and Pervez [Musharraf].”

• March 2: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram stating that the Taliban used to assert the differences between Sunnis and others but now says that religious minority groups are part of Afghanistan. The post claims that the Taliban now supports equal rights for religious minority groups, including non-Muslims, after previously condemning the concept.

“#Report. The militia used to say that not recognizing the differences between the peoples of Afghanistan is kufr [disbelief], and eliminating the difference between the infidel minorities and Muslims and considering all Afghans and those with equal rights is an infidel article and a republic because they were infidels who did these things!

“But today we see Nanak Haibat Khan [Hibatullah Akhundzada] saying that Afghans are my children, Abdul Salam Hanafi is saying that Afghans are one entity, there are no minorities in it, and Mullah [Abdul] Kabir is saying that a Sikh is a man.

“And it is interesting that in defense of these infidel minorities, the militia considers their fallen fighters as martyrs of Badr.

“That poet says:

“What a man you have taught me.

“I greet you with two hands!”

• March 3: Pro-ISIS post on Element stating that ISIS online supporters were awaiting Amaq or Nashir confirmation that ISIS was responsible for killing two Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam leaders in Balochistan, Pakistan. The post also noted that it was “important . . . to silence the voices that spread division and take the masses away from” ISIS.

• March 3: Pro-ISIS post on Element claiming that an attack on a Moscow area synagogue, allegedly planned by an ISIS-K supporter, was prevented. 

  

• March 7: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram claiming that the Taliban are angry that their losses in the Kabul Airport Attack were not recognized in the recent extradition of alleged ISIS-K member Mohammad Sharifullah.

“All the senior officials and the youth of the Taliban are angry and green, shouting from the front that ‘the Kabul airport attacker killed us last year. Why doesn’t Mr. Trump give us the credit that he gives to Pakistan?’

“We ask these martyrs: How did that war of the cross and the Takbir [the fight between the ‘Crusader’ West and the Muslim world] happen?

“You used to say that this is a crusade, that you would give foreign children to death with the slogan of ‘Allahu Akbar,’ was that crusade of yours only to get a seat?”

3. ISIS Amaq/Nashir Statements

• There were no Amaq/Nashir claims of responsibility for Afghanistan between March 1 and March 7.