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).
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.
A Taliban commander, Naik Mohammad Turabi, was killed in Paktika (September 30). The Taliban wants friendly relations with Iran and Russia.
Afghanistan: A Taliban officer from the Ministry of the Interior was killed in Mazar-i-Sharif by unidentified gunmen. Pakistan: Fighting between unidentified militants and Pakistani security forces in Mir Ali Tehsil, North Waziristan.
Human Rights Watch has noted that over 700 Shiite Hazaras have been killed in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover. The Taliban is afraid that ISIS has infiltrated their ranks and that Taliban members will defect. There was an attack using...
September 12 ISIS-K massacre, between Daikandi and Ghor provinces in central Afghanistan, of Hazara Shiites who were returning from a pilgrimage to Karbala. Attacks on Pakistani police officers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa who have been protesting the lack...
September 2 attack on the Taliban public prosecutor's office. The head of the Taliban's prison system announced that they were holding 11,000 detainees, including 1,000 women and 800 children. The Taliban falsely claimed to have killed an ISIS-K...
A Taliban vehicle was attacked on August 22 in Nangarhar, killing and wounding several. Explosions occurred in Kabul which were reported on August 17 and August 22. Shiites were killed by unknown individuals in Herat and Ghor. The United Arab...
One person was killed and 13 injured in an attack on a bus in Kabul. ISIS claimed responsibility, asserting that they had killed Shiites. Taliban and Pakistani border guards fought in the Torkham area. The Taliban condemned a commander who advocated...
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.