Taliban maintain contacts with Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorist groups in Afghanistan
The radical Taliban movement, which has seized power in Afghanistan, maintains close contacts with the terrorist groups Islamic State
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Taliban claim capturing at least 600 Islamic State militants
Afghanistan’s Taliban said Wednesday they have rounded up nearly 600 members of the local Islamic State affiliate...
Taliban Emir warns of Islamic State-Khorasan infiltration
Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Emir of the Taliban’s “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” warned the group on Thursday that its rank and file might have...
Taliban size up threat from tenacious Islamic State-Khorasan
As the Taliban shift their focus from insurgency to government, their most formidable rival is the Islamic State's regional chapter...
Islamic State terror group uses China to vilify Taliban
Since its founding in 2014, the Islamic State group has reportedly always been hostile to China. China’s well-documented repression of Uyghurs...
Roadside bomb targeted Taliban patrol and killed two in Afghanistan Islamic State hub
A roadside bomb struck a Taliban patrol in a stronghold of ISIS militants in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two people...
Terrorist threat still active from Afghanistan after Taliban came to power
Moscow notes with regret that the terrorist and drug threat continues to come from Afghanistan after the Taliban movement came to power...
Taliban terrorist group official among Kabul hospital attack fatalities
A statement in Arabic posted on the terror group’s propaganda site Amaq claimed more than 40 people were killed or injured during the bomb and...
Ex-Afghan special forces troops and intelligence officers reportedly joining Islamic State to fight Taliban
The US-backed government of Afghanistan and its American-trained security forces collapsed after Taliban fighters entered Kabul on 15 August.
Pentagon official: Raised doubts about Taliban’s ability to fight Islamic State in Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official said it is unclear whether the Taliban has the capability to fight the Islamic State extremist group effectively...
Taliban commander who launched deadly bombings in Kabul is now a police chief in charge of security
Mutmaeen used to run Taliban suicide-bombing squads in Kabul. On a recent day, in his new role as police chief for one of the Afghan...
Islamic State-linked extremist fearful of Taliban retribution tries to return to the United Kingdom
A suspected extremist with links to ISIS was removed from a plane leaving Kabul, foiling his attempt to return to the UK after being stripped...