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Osama Bin Laden's Security Chief Appears in Public in Afghanistan
September 07, 2021
The sighting of Osama bin Laden's security chief Amin al Haq in public in Afghanistan signals the ongoing ties between Al Qaeda (AQ) and the Taliban, as well as the porous borders between Afghanistan and Pakistan, as al Haq helped Osama bin Laden escape into Pakistan during the US assault on the AQ headquarters in Afghanistan's Tora Bora, while AQ fighters have supported the Taliban insurgency against US coalition forces over the past twenty years.
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Turkey Signals Readiness for Cooperation with Taliban
August 25, 2021
Turkey has signaled the will to cooperate with the Taliban within the existing parameters of the three-year-old Strategic Partnership and Friendship Agreement signed between Ankara and the now-overturned Kabul government, as Turkey's president declared the shared ideological perspective of the NATO member and and a desire to develop military cooperation.
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Syria's Main Islamist Group Continues Jihadist War, Celebrating Taliban Victory
August 25, 2021
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the main Islamist extremist group aiming to set up an Islamic emirate in northern Syria and Iraq, is celebrating the Taliban victory in Afghanistan with propaganda posts and on-the-ground offensives that belie the group's leaders recent diplomatic moderation aimed at normalizing relations with the United States.
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Globalization of Sharia Law Reflected in Variety of Islamist Regimes
August 25, 2021
The globalization of sharia law as a system of governance, family law, financial and judicial practice is reflected in the diversity and scope of Islamists regimes across the world, and the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan will add another Islamic state to the growing range of sharia state and non-state actors.
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Afghanistan's Jihadist Geopolitics Offer Foreboding
August 25, 2021
The Guardian reports that the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is creating a geospace for jihadist competition among a range of Islamist extremist groups including al-Qaida, IS, and a diversity of sub-groups, whose short-term political-military jockeying for turf will be outweighed by the global destabilization caused by their ideological consensus and operational collaboration.
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