RT @RUSI_org: 🚨🧵New RUSI Paper, ‘The Taliban’s Campaign Against the Islamic State: Explaining Initial Successes’ by @AntonioGiustoz2, which…

RT @SAsiaLSE: .📣 We’re delighted to launch our ‘Occasional Paper’ series: work-in-progress by Visiting Fellows @SAsiaLSE #1 on the KPF in…

RT @Rusi_Terrorism: Check out the new report by @AntonioGiustoz2 that reviews how the fall of Kabul affected the propaganda and social medi…

RT @SAsiaLSE: As the Taliban establishes itself in Afghanistan, it is confronted with an unexpected reality: terrorism from the Islamic Sta…

RT @techvsterrorism: 🎧 INSIDE TEHREEK-E-TALIBAN PAKISTAN'S RESURGENCE This week, our expert guests @AmiraJadoon and @AntonioGiustoz2 discu…

@JJSchroden @trippcopeland @NATO @CTCWP @WarProf The rules of logic do not always apply to funding. Actually, they probably do no apply most of the time!

@JJSchroden @trippcopeland @NATO @CTCWP @WarProf It would be a worthy enterprise, but I strongly suspect nobody will want to fund it.

How the Taliban are Meeting the IS Threat on Afghanistan’s Campuses

@JeffRigsby2 Nope, no access here either

@JeffRigsby2 I think the evidence cited by Le Monde is weak. Surely it was not local people, that does not mean it was Daesh. There are many gangs in Afghanistan, quite a few of them active in mining operations . Why do we need to assume Daesh is needed to activate professional smugglers?

@JeffRigsby2 As for Balkh and the south-eastern provinces, I think the Reuters article refers to more recent times, although I have not seen much evidence of their activity in the southeast.

@JeffRigsby2 They never controlled Derzab by any stretch of the imagination. They had a base there, that is all.

Nice cover, but I do not know where the subtitle comes from. There was nothing in the original about the war against the Soviets (nor did the Taliban even exist then!)