Afghanistan Content Report: September 13 – September 19, 2025

Afghanistan Content Report 

September 13 – September 19, 2025

Table of contents 

  1. ISIS Al-Naba Newsletter Edition 513, Published September 18, 2025
  2. Pro-ISIS Online Chatter
  3. ISIS Amaq/Nashir Statements 

 

Main points (Pro-ISIS Online Chatter) 

Afghanistan

  • Taliban officials recently met with former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and with Adam Boehler, the U.S. special envoy for hostage response.
  • The Taliban intelligence head for Shigal district, Kunar province, was killed in an explosion. News reports indicate that the incident was an accident.
  • Unidentified gunmen in Mashhad, Iran, assassinated Maroof Ghulami, a former anti-Taliban military commander.
  • The Qatari government did not invite the Taliban to the recent summit of Arab and Islamic countries held in Doha. 

o The Taliban defense minister, Yaqoob Mujahid, traveled to Doha for other meetings, even though Taliban officials were not invited to the summit. 

  • President Trump stated that the U.S. wants a presence at Bagram Air Base again.                 

Pakistan

  • At least five people were killed in an explosion in Chaman, Pakistan, on the border with Afghanistan, in an attack that allegedly targeted a Taliban leader.
  • Members of the Pakistani security forces were either killed or wounded in Peshawar while trying to arrest an alleged ISIS “field official.”
  • 35 Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters were killed or wounded, and seven Pakistani soldiers were killed, during fighting in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
  • A Pakistani military convoy in Balochistan was attacked with a car bomb, killing 13 soldiers and wounding 10.
  • Unidentified gunmen murdered a police officer in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
  • A Pakistani soldier was killed in South Waziristan. 

 

1. ISIS Al-Naba Newsletter Edition 513, Published September 18, 2025 

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

 

2. Pro-ISIS Online Chatter 

  • September 13: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram claiming that Taliban officials recently met with Zalmay 

    Khalilzad and alleged CIA officials. The primary American official in the photos below, other than Khalilzad, is Adam Boehler, the Trump administration’s special envoy for hostage response. The post is likely falsely claiming that Boehler is a U.S. intelligence agent. See https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-trump-envoys807b5310c99b80da8abe63c4ea345af2.

“Follow-ups. From Latifa [al-Droubi] in Damascus to the Afghan capital, Kabul, CIA officials, accompanied by Zalmay Khalilzad, meet with Taliban officials.” 

 

“Urgent. An explosion occurred inside the home of a Taliban leader, Shabir Ahmad, the director of the surveillance department, near his home in the Afghan province of Kunar, which killed him instantly.” 

 

“Follow-ups. Gunmen assassinate an Afghan military commander in the Karzai regime outside his home in the Iranian city of Mashhad.” 

 

  • September 13: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram noting that Adam Boehler, the U.S. special envoy for hostage response, who met with Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, is Jewish. 

“Follow-ups. Who is Adam Boehler, who met with Taliban officials in Kabul today? 

“Wikipedia answers.” 

 

  • September 14: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram claiming that during fighting in Bannu, Khyber 

    Pakhtunkhwa, 18 Pakistani Taliban members were killed, an additional 17 were injured, and seven Pakistani soldiers were killed. See https://www.dawn.com/news/1942170. 

“Follow-ups. Clashes have been ongoing for hours in the Bannu area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa between the Pakistani army and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), resulting in the deaths of 18 Taliban members and the wounding of 17 others, according to a preliminary toll. “Seven soldiers were also killed.” 

pro isis post on telegram

 

“Entertainment. Did you know that the Qatari government did not invite the Afghan Taliban to attend the Doha summit? 

“Observers attribute this to the U.S.–Taliban disputes that recently escalated due to Trump’s decision to cut salaries to Taliban members. 

“The Afghan government is still in shock and awaiting an invitation despite the summit’s conclusion.” 

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  • September 16: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram claiming that the Taliban defense minister, Yaqoob Mujahid, traveled to Doha to “express solidarity with Qatar” despite not being invite to the summit. See https://www.afintl.com/en/202509167388.

“Follow-ups. Even if you do not send us an invitation . . . the Taliban’s defense minister arrives in Doha to express solidarity with Qatar. 

“Why didn’t he go to Syria to express solidarity with them?” 

 

  • September 17: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram stating that unidentified gunmen murdered a police officer in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 

“Urgent. Gunmen assassinate a police officer in the Pakistani city of Kohat.” 

 

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  • September 18: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram claiming that a Pakistani military convoy in Balochistan was attacked with a car bomb. 

“Urgent. A car bomb exploded in the Kech district of Balochistan, targeting a Pakistani military convoy.” 

 

sep 18

 

  • September 13: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram noting that 13 soldiers were killed and 10 were wounded in the Balochistan convoy attack. 

“Urgent. 13 soldiers killed and 10 others injured in a new toll from an explosion targeting a joint Pakistani military convoy in Balochistan.” 

 

“Urgent. Trump: We are trying to retake Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. That base is an hour away from where China manufactures its nuclear weapons.”

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  • September 18: Pro ISIS post on Telegram claiming that five people were killed in an explosion in the city of Chaman, on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. The post noted that details about the explosion, including the motive, are unknown.

“Urgent. An explosion at a parking lot in Chaman, on the Afghan–Pakistan border in Balochistan, killed five people, according to a preliminary toll. The motive for the attack is not yet known.” 

 

 

  • September 18: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram noting that the Chaman explosion was an intentional bombing in an area near a refugee camp where trucks cross the border. See https://www.dawn.com/news/1943082. 

“Update. The explosion was caused by explosive devices planted in a gathering place for trucks entering and exiting Afghanistan and Pakistan, near a refugee camp.” 

 

 

  • September 18: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram affirming that President Trump has been interested in retaking Bagram Air Base for months. 

“Text: CNN: Three sources say Trump has been quietly pressing his national security team for months to find a way to retake Bagram Air Base from the Taliban.” 

“Update. Quoted from CNN.” 

 

  • September 18: Pro ISIS post on Telegram claiming that the Chaman explosion targeted a Taliban leader identified as Sardar Wali, who was allegedly killed in the attack. 

“Update. The explosion targeted a Taliban leader, Sardar Wali, killing him and several of his companions.” 

 

  • September 19: Pro-ISIS post on Telegram stating that a Pakistani soldier was killed in South Waziristan. The post claimed that the soldier was the son of a high-ranking officer. 

“Urgent. An armed attack in Pakistan’s South Waziristan region results in the death of a member of the army, the son of the deputy commander of the army’s Southern Military District [sic].” 

 

  • September 19: Pro ISIS post on Telegram claiming that members of the Pakistani security forces were either killed or wounded while trying to arrest an ISIS “field official in Peshawar.” The post claimed that the ISIS leader “planned the assassination of a Pakistani security official on May 11.” 

“Urgent. Local sources: A clash broke out between V [ISIS] fighters and Pakistani forces during the latter’s attempt to arrest a field official in Peshawar. The clash resulted in casualties among Pakistani forces, and the official was able to withdraw to an unknown location. 

“Sources say the official planned the assassination of a Pakistani security official on May 11 of this year.” 

 

3. ISIS Amaq/Nashir Statements 

•            There were no Amaq/Nashir claims of responsibility for Afghanistan between September 13 and 19. 

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