Tag: Daesh

#Pakistan News As the Pakistan parliament takes on the 2018 document for a possible constitutional framework; the terror group dismisses signatories as ‘false scholars’. Daesh’s Pakistan branch recently criticised the “Paigham-e-Pakistan”, or Message of Pakistan (PeP), a consensus-based counter-terrorism policy document signed by thousands of Pakistani Islamic scholars, which ...

KABUL, Afghanistan The terrorist group Daesh/ISIS-Khorasan is taking advantage of Afghanistan's economic crisis by hiring poor people to boost its ranks in the war-torn country, according to both locals and analysts.Despite the actions of the interim Taliban administration against ISIS-K terrorists in the capital Kabul and the eastern Nangarhar ...

#Pakistan News Daesh’s Khorasan wing is primarily rooted in the Pakistani insurgency, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, a series of networks quite distinct from Afghanistan’s Taliban movement. Note: This is the first of a two-part publication examining the rise of Daesh-K and the extent of its relationship with the Taliban. The second ...

ISLAMABAD, PakistanThe Taliban on Saturday claimed that over 50 Daesh/ISIS militants "surrendered" in the restive eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.An official statement from the Taliban's intelligence headquarters in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, said that 55 fighters associated with the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group had laid down their guns there.It said ...

ISLAMABAD, PakistanThe Taliban on Saturday claimed that over 50 Daesh/ISIS militants "surrendered" in the restive eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.An official statement from the Taliban's intelligence headquarters in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, said that 55 fighters associated with the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group had laid down their guns there.It said ...

ISLAMABADThe Daesh/ISIS terrorist group has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s deadly assault on Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital in the capital Kabul.A statement in Arabic posted on the terror group’s propaganda site Amaq claimed more than 40 people were killed or injured in the bomb and gun attack on the Sardar ...

JALALABAD — Every few days, bodies are dumped on the outskirts of the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. Some have been shot or hanged, some beheaded. Many have handwritten notes stuffed into their pockets, accusing them of being members of Afghanistan's branch of the so-called Islamic State, according to ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Two Taliban security personnel were injured in a grenade attack in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday.The explosion occurred on the main Darul Aman road in the Deh Mazang area of Kabul during the morning rush hour, according to the Taliban’s interim Interior Ministry.Saeed Khosti, the ministry’s spokesman, said unknown ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Two Taliban security personnel were injured in a grenade attack in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday.The explosion occurred on the main Darul Aman road in the Deh Mazang area of Kabul during the morning rush hour, according to the Taliban’s interim Interior Ministry.Saeed Khosti, the ministry’s spokesman, said unknown ...

#Pakistan News A bomb explodes at a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city, killing 62 people. A week ago, before this explosion, another mosque was destroyed by a bomb in Kunduz, killing more than 100 people. What these two mosques had in common is that both were frequented by ...