Tajik Taliban Publishes Video Threatening Dushanbe after Attacks on Tajikistan

Dushanbe accused Jamaat Ansarullah jihadists of launching an armed incursion from Afghanistan into Tajikistan on September 6, clashing with security forces before being killed and their massive weapons cache was seized. Tajik...

TKD ANALYSIS: The Persistent Threat of Islamic State Khorasan (ISKP) Against Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) in Bajaur

At least 63 people were killed and more than 200 injured on July 30 after an explosion ripped through the tribal city of Khar in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Bajaur district that borders Afghanistan. The suicide...

The Perplexing Credit Taking Dynamics within Militant Organizations

Early in the morning on July 12, 2023, a group of five militants belonging to the newly founded jihadist group, the Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan (TJP), stormed a garrison post in Balochistan province’s Zhob district.The TJP immed...

TKD EXCLUSIVE – Who Was Ziauddin aka Mulla Muhammad aka Abu Saad Al-Khorasani?

Hours after a suicide bomber ripped through a busy Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Abu Saad Al-Khorasani of the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) not only claimed responsibility for the attack but also ou...

Islamic State Khorasan And The Threats To Sufis

On August 17 2022, a huge explosion targeted the Siddiqiya Mosque in Kabul, claiming more than 20 lives and injuring over 30 others, including the khatib, Maulvi Amir Muhammad Kabuli. While no group claimed responsibility for...

War Of Narratives: Usmani’s Remarks On Armed Struggle In Pakistan Stir Up A Debate

The last two weeks of January were marked by a heated verbal confrontation between religious scholars, jihadist ideologues, and militant leaders. This was sparked by remarks made by Pakistan’s Grand Mufti, Taqi Usmani, regard...

An Assessment Of Islamic State’s Threat To Pakistan: Propaganda And Reality

On April 24, the English language branch of Islamic State Khorasan (ISKP) Al-Azaim Media – the official mouthpiece of the outfit – published a new 25-minute-long video titled “The Unrestrained Metastasis within the Body of th...

A Timeline of ISKP attacks on Shias in 2022

The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) continued its sectarian campaign against Shias in 2022, both in Afghanistan and Pakistan.According to The Khorasan Diary’s database, ISKP has claimed 18 attacks so far that targeted ...

Marking Targets – Islamic State Khorasan (ISKP) Continues to Vilify Turkey’s Role in the Middle East and Afghanistan

In early December last year, Turkey announced the arrest of two Islamic State (IS) militants accused of plotting an attack inside the country on New Year’s Eve. The detained persons, said to be foreign nationals fro...