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The Islamic State- Khorasan Province (ISKP) has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the city of Faizabad that killed Badakhshan deputy governor Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi and his driver. Several other people were wounded by the blast, which was carried out by a suicide vehicle borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) that rammed into Ahmadi's car and detonated. The attack comes months...

The Taliban media outlet al-Mersaad has reported that Taliban forces carried out a raid against an Islamic State– Khorasan Province (ISKP) cell in Nahr-e-Shahi, which sits outside of the provincial capital of Mazar-i-Sharif. Heavy fighting has been reported and the situation is said to be ongoing. Balkh province remains a hotbed for ISKP activity.  

The Taliban’s Interior Ministry has reported that over the past year and a half, over 80,000 drug addicts have been collected around the country and sent to drug treatment centers for a 45 day mandatory rehabilitation. Since the Taliban took over the country, the group has sought to ban opium cultivation and drug manufacturing acrossAfghanistan as millions struggle with addiction...

Ejaz Ahmad Ahangar, a key Islamic State figure in India and Pakistan, was killed during a Taliban raid in Kabul on February 14, according to pro-ISIS channels. Ahangar was one of the main forces behind establishing an ISIS presence specifically Jammu and Kashmir, leading recruiting efforts within the Islamic State Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK) and helping form Islamic State Hind...

Over the past week, interior ministers of the Taliban have freely spoken out against Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Supreme Leader of the Taliban. The ministers made their comments days apart, giving the rest of the world a better perspective to what is happening internally in the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Its beginning to look as if there are two...