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).
U.S. negotiators have been meeting with Taliban officials in Kabul to arrange an alleged U.S. return to the country. The U.S. delegation “received information and delivered orders to the Taliban” in Kabul. The Council of the European Union added the...
A Taliban soldier who used to steal from private homes “under the pretext of searches” has been arrested in Kabul. ISIS killed a police officer and an alleged Pakistani spy in Mamumd, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) took...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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