Al-Qaeda is passing through a difficult succession process after the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri in a US drone strike in Kabul on July 31. The appointment of the next leader is the crucial stage as
Islamic State Khorasan (ISKP) mouthpiece Al-Azaim, Uzbek chapter, has published an hour-long audio news bulletin, featuring several speakers as guests.
The audio statement is divided into 8 parts, with a brief introduction and then a comment on the ISKP attack in Kabul on the Langan Hotel, which was carried out by two ISKP operatives Abu Omari and Abdul Jabbar.
It then continues with a brief poem about Uyghurs’ plight before introducing a speaker as a guest who comments on, Abdul Jabbar Tajiki, one of the two ISKP militants who carried out the Langan Hotel attack. The speaker recalls that Abdul
A faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide bombing in Malik Saad Police Lines, Peshawar, while the TTP Central leadership denies it did it.
Considering the innovative trends in violent attacks by militant groups in the last 6 months, things point toward a worsening security climate in areas of Pakistan caused by either a new strategy employed by militant outfits for not claiming attacks or the difficulties that militant leaders have in controlling their own internal factions, possibly raising the risk of unchecked and indiscriminate attacks in Pakistan as well as overlapping operations by militant
