Afghanistan Content Report
September 14–20, 2024
Please note all items in this issue concern ISIS-K
Table of contents
Main points (Pro-ISIS online chatter)
The killing of someone allegedly working for Pakistani intelligence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
1. ISIS Al-Naba Newsletter Edition 461, Published September 19, 2024
“About 20 Rafidah [a derogatory term for Shiites] were killed, and a number of others were injured, in two separate attacks by Islamic State soldiers in Khorasan Province, despite the Taliban militia’s continued security alert to secure the Rafidah polytheistic seasons and occasions that are full of abuse of Muslims.”
“In the details, with the help of God Almighty, the soldiers of the Caliphate attacked on Thursday (6 Rabi’ al-Awwal) a group of apostate Rafidis in the village of Qariodal near the Daykundi region in central Afghanistan with machine guns, which resulted in the killing of 15 Rafidis and the wounding of six others. The Mujahideen returned to their positions safely, and praise be to God. The attack occurred while this group of Rafidis was heading to receive another group that had just returned from Karbala in Iraq after performing their polytheistic rituals.
“The media office of the Khorasan Province published pictures of the attack showing the Mujahideen shooting at the Rafidis from close range and killing them, and praise be to God. It is noteworthy that there are official connections and links between the representatives of the Rafidis in Afghanistan and the Rafidis of Iraq and the Levant. Coordination is taking place between them at various levels, most notably the military level, where Afghan Rafidis are constantly sent to the ranks of the militias are joining and escaping the Rafidah [sic], which has been fighting against Muslims in Iraq and the Levant for years, with Iranian support and guidance.”
“Following the attack, the militia spokesman said he received the news of the Rafidah’s killing ‘with great sadness and grief,’ while another militia official said an official delegation from the militia had headed to the area ‘to express its sympathy’ with the Rafidah who were killed in the attack. The Taliban strives to protect and secure the Rafidah, especially during their polytheistic seasons, which are not without insulting the Prophet’s companions and offending Muslims, while the militia devotes itself to fighting the Mujahideen who confront the Rafidah threat threatening the region.”
“In the same context, on Saturday (11 Rabi’ al-Awwal), the soldiers of the Caliphate raided a house of the apostate Rafidis near their temple in the town of Rustam in the Mardan region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and slaughtered five of them. They returned to their positions safely, and praise be to God. The Rafidis use this house as a reception and sleeping place for the Rafidis who go to the nearby temple to perform their Rafidi rituals.”
“Security-wise, on Sunday (12 Rabi’ al-Awwal), the soldiers of the Caliphate targeted a spy of the apostate Pakistani intelligence in the town of Bara in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region with machine guns, which resulted in his injury, praise be to God.”
“The soldiers of the Caliphate in the Khorasan Province injured seven members of the apostate Pakistani police and one of the apostate mukhtars [village leaders] and killed one of his guards in two separate bombings that occurred last week in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.”
2. Pro-ISIS Online Chatter
“#Urgent. Three bodies of Taliban militants found in Bannu area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.”
“#Urgent. An explosive device exploded targeting a Pakistani police vehicle near the Zamindar Hotel in the city of Quetta, which led to the death of two people, ‘one of them is an assistant inspector general,’ and the injury of two others:
“• Assistant Inspector General Zainuddin.
“• Constable Muhammad Tahir.”
“#Follow-ups. Human Rights Watch: More than 700 Shiites [have been] killed by terrorists in Afghanistan during the past three years.
“Taliban militia and others feel sad for Shiites.”
Text: “Taliban arrests seven of its members in Herat on charges of collaborating with ISIS. Reliable sources in Herat reported that the Taliban arrested seven of its members on charges of collaborating with ISIS. Sources confirmed to the Saturday 24 Sampala [sic] newspaper that these people were arrested from Taliban military units. The Taliban in Herat has not yet commented on these arrests. The infiltration of ISIS soldiers into the ranks of the Taliban movement is one of the main concerns of this group. It is worth noting that during the past three months, more than 20 Taliban members have been arrested in Herat on charges of collaborating with ISIS.”
“#Follow-ups. The terrorists have put the Taliban militia in a state of ‘disorientation’ so that they do not know how to act, what to protect, or what to do.
“From military strikes to security strikes to intellectual strikes and now internal intellectual and security penetration.”
“#Urgent. Armed attack targets Pakistani police officer Arshad Rauf at Islampura police station in Lahore.”
“#Urgent. An armed attack targeted the head of the local council (affiliated with Pakistani intelligence), Fidur-ur-Rahman, in the Khesari Banda area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which led to his immediate death.”
“#Pakistan. #Terrorism targeted a Pakistani intelligence agent in the town of Bara in the Khyber region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa yesterday with machine guns, wounding him.”
“#Urgent. An armed attack targets a Shiite gathering in the Parachinar area of the Pakistani district of Kurram. It is noteworthy that the region has witnessed bloody battles between Muslims and Shiites in recent months.”
“#Urgent. Gunmen kill a person in the Afghan city of Kandahar.”
“#Urgent. An explosion shakes a neighborhood in the Afghan capital of Kabul.”
“#Update. A bomb attack occurred at the Taimani intersection in the capital of Kabul, and Taliban militiamen are surrounding the scene of the incident.”
“#Urgent. A grenade attack targeted a Pakistani police station in Balochistan, injuring four officers with varying degrees of injuries.
“#Follow-ups. The Taliban militia appoints a new intelligence chief in Kabul after the previous one failed to achieve the U.S. administration’s goals of eliminating terrorism.”
“#Urgent. Gunmen assassinate a tribal leader in the Afghan city of Kandahar.”
“#Urgent. An explosion targets a military vehicle of the Taliban militia near Pamir Cinema in the first district of the Afghan capital, Kabul, which led to the death of one member and the injury of three others ‘as a preliminary result.’”
“#Message. Five apostate Rafidis were killed in a terrorist operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest of Pakistan.”
Text: “Islamabad: At least five members of a family were killed when a fire broke out in a mud house in Rustam Bagh Jabran area of Mardan early Saturday morning. According to initial reports, Rescue 1122 [Pakistani emergency service] officials said the house, built on a hill, served as a residence for devotees of a nearby shrine, private news channels reported. On receiving the information, firefighters rushed to the spot and managed to douse the fire. The bodies were later moved to the hospital.”
“#Update. The Pakistani media reported that they died in a fire at the time, so the news was not striking. It turned out that the fire was the work of terrorists and that the dead were guards of one of the temples in the village.”
“#Urgent. An explosion rocks the Qala-e-Naw area in the Afghan province of Baghdis.”
“#Update. The explosion was caused by a hand grenade thrown at a Taliban militia member, wounding him.”
Text: “Urgent: Preparation for provocations and terrorist attacks against Russian embassy in Kabul. Reliable sources reported that an attack is being prepared on the Russians in Kabul.”
“#Follow-ups. Russian fears of attacks that may target its embassy in Kabul.”
“#Urgent. A captain and another soldier were injured when an IED disposal unit came under fire from militants in Makin, South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
“#Update. Five Pakistani army personnel [were] killed, [and] eight [were] injured in [the] attack.
“Among the dead is an officer.
“An officer is also among the injured.”
“#Urgent. Armed men shot dead Ishaq, a Pakistani army official, in Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, as he was leaving his home for work this morning, and the attackers seized his weapon.”
“#Urgent. Militants in North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province attacked three security personnel killed as a road protection team.”
Text: “Breaking News. Two Pakistani soldiers died of their wounds, and another was injured at the Ghulam Khan border crossing in North Waziristan when Afghan border guards opened fire on them. According to Pakistani officials, the incident took place when the Pakistani side was closing the border at 7:00 pm, and the Afghan border guards asked not to close the gate, which led to a verbal altercation that resulted in gunfire from the Afghan side. Local sources from Ghulam Khan told the newspaper. Heavy gunfire is still being heard from both sides.”
“The conflict of enemies continues, and this time, the clash is between the Pakistani army and the Afghan Taliban militia. The conflict on the border killed seven Taliban and two Pakistanis. Noting that there is no difference regarding rulings.”
“After the differences between the Taliban militia and its followers increased regarding issues such as the rule of Shia Sufism, jihad outside the borders of Afghanistan, and the education of girls, the prime minister of the Taliban militia issued a statement urging the so-called ‘religious scholars’ to refrain from discussing divisive topics.
“He warned that ‘the militia will not allow anyone to spread ‘sedition’ or division or conflict and will take serious measures to prevent this.’
“They are like tyrants. There is no difference between them. They call matters that concern and touch upon reality as sedition, and they listen to it and avoid talking about the principles of religion and duties because they have no argument.
“Otherwise, sedition is the greatest injustice.”
“#Urgent. A gun attack targeted a Pakistani army member in the Azna Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing him instantly.”
“In Pakistan, there are several parties waging war with other parties. For example, the Pakistani Taliban militia is waging battles with the government to force it to sign a treaty and hand over some areas and control, as the Taliban rule Afghanistan with the approval of Pakistani and American intelligence.
“There is a Baloch force, a secular force, and another religious force. The goal of secularism is clear, and the goal of the other is the same as the goals of the Baloch force in Iran (we ask God to guide them).
“And there are the terrorists who want to rule according to what God has decreed.
“Therefore, several attacks occur, and we broadcast some of them on our news channel. Sometimes, we do not broadcast news of the attacks because the places of their attacks are considered strongholds for those forces, but we are surprised by the expansion of the terrorists to those new areas, and they become areas of operations for the terrorists, as in the recent Waziristan attacks and others.
“This is a simple explanation of the strategically important Pakistani arena.”
#Urgent. Gunmen opened fire on a senior Pakistani intelligence officer on Mirian Road, Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, seriously wounding him and his companion ([his] brother).”
“#Urgent. A bomb attack rocked the city of Taloqan, Takhar, Afghanistan.”
3. ISIS Amaq/Nashir Statements
“By the grace of God Almighty, the soldiers of the Caliphate detonated an explosive device on a vehicle of the apostate Pakistani police in the town of Kuchlak in the Quetta region in Balochistan, which led to its destruction and the killing of an officer and a soldier and the injury of another soldier, praise be to God.”
“Khorasan Province. By the grace of Allah Almighty, the soldiers of the Caliphate targeted a spy of the apostate Pakistani intelligence in the town of Bara in the Khyber District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa yesterday, with machine guns, which resulted in his injury, praise be to Allah.”
“Five Rafidis were killed in an operation by the Caliphate soldiers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Northwest Pakistan.
“By the grace of God Almighty, the soldiers of the Caliphate raided a house of the apostate Rafidis in the town of Rustam in the Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last Saturday and slaughtered 5 of them and then burned the house. They returned to their position safely, and praise be to God.”
4. ISIS-K Linked Al-Azaim Web Magazine Voice of Khorasan Issue 39, Released on September 20, 2024
Summary:
On September 20, the ISIS-K linked al-Azaim Media propaganda group released issue 39 of the English language web magazine Voice of Khorasan. The first article called for fighting in Kashmir and compared the treatment of Muslims there to the treatment of Uyghurs in East Turkistan. A translated editorial from al-Naba 454 called for lone actor attacks as a way of “confirm[ing] the failure” of anti-ISIS campaigns and also stated that ISIS may choose not to acknowledge specific attacks. The editorial noted that these attacks allow supporters to be “one with” ISIS, even if they cannot be physically “amongst us.”
An article condemned the Taliban as the mercenaries of the U.S. and alleged that Taliban officials attended the Doha International Maritime Defense Exhibition & Conference (DIMDEX) to “present their progress to the world” and meet with their American intelligence “bosses.”
Additional articles included stories about Ibrahim bin Adham (718-782) and Salman al-Farisi, one of the Prophet’s companions. Other articles offered advice on preventing social media accounts from being deleted and browsing the internet anonymously, a text version of an ISIS al-Bayan radio broadcast, where the narrator describes leaving Italy and traveling to ISIS-held territory in approximately 2016, and a story about an individual from Turkey who joins ISIS after a long period of skepticism.
Infographics celebrated the August 23, 2024, Solingen stabbing attacks, encouraged lone actor attacks, condemned “Kazakh doctors” providing training in Afghanistan, condemned Qatar, celebrated the September 2, 2024, Kabul attack targeting the Taliban’s prosecution service, and offered advice on how to run a pious household. As with previous issues, the web magazine included a wallet for sending the privacy cryptocurrency Monero.
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers.
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