After talking to reporters who were at a ceremony to honour media personnel on 11 March in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Afghanistan’s Balkh province, when a bomb killed at least two journalists and wounded 15 others, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the province’s acting governor to bring those responsible to justice.
The far-right Takfiri ideology that drives these brainwashed terrorists is essentially designed to sow seeds of discord among Muslims and malign the image of Islam. That is precisely where the interests of Daesh and Western powers converge.
The Islamic State (IS) province in Iraq (Wilayah Iraq) stabilized its operations in 2020 and increased them in 2021 (Jihad Analytics, January 24; Jihad Analytics, February 4). After the fall of IS as a territorial entity and the death of the previous caliph, Abubakar al-Baghdadi, IS reorganized its multiple Iraqi provinces into a single Wilayah Iraq divided into several sectors. …
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: The Daesh says a lone Afghan suicide bomber struck inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar during Friday prayers, killing at least 56 worshippers and wounding 194 people. The Daesh affiliate in the region known as Islamic State in Khorasan province and headquartered in Afghanistan claimed Friday’s devastating attack in a
The blast claimed by the Daesh group tore through the Kocha Risaldar area of the city moments before Friday prayers were to start, shattering the interior and showering the streets with broken glass.