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).
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
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.