Afghanistan Content Report: March 1–7, 2025
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.
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CEP reports on the security situation in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s takeover of the country in August 2021, focusing on the risks emanating from the country and implications for global terrorism. CEP also monitors online content from affiliates of al-Qaeda and ISIS, particularly Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP).
Afghanistan Content Report: February 22–28, 2025
Unknown assailants killed a Taliban leader in Baghlan. The U.S. and the Taliban are collaborating on killing ISIS-K fighters in Afghanistan. The current conflict between the U.S. and the Taliban is “a show of fake hostility” to create legitimacy for...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Location:
Eisenhower Theater
Tuesday January 27, 2026 7:30p.m.
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.