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: 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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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: December 7–December 13, 2024

Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban minister of refugees, was killed in an attack in Kabul. Three Taliban soldiers were allegedly killed in an attack in Faryab province. ISIS did not claim the attack. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) may seek to emulate the Taliban and claim to have instituted religious law. ISIS will continue to fight against HTS.
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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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