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2021-07-25 Afghanistan
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UN Warns of Expanding Threat from Daesh, al Qaeda in Afghanistan
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[ToloNews] The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
in a new report is warning that the threat from terror groups such as ISIS and al Qaeda is expanding in many places in Afghanistan where the security situation remains fragile with uncertainty surrounding the grinding of the peace processor and a risk of further deterioration.
The report by the UN Security Council, published Thursday, says that despite territorial, leadership, manpower and financial losses during 2020 in Kunar and Nangarhar
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The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
provinces, ISIS’s Khorasan branch, or ISIS-K, has moved into other provinces, including Nuristan, Badghis, Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
, Baghlan, Badakhshan, Kunduz and Kabul, where fighters have formed sleeper cells.
The report says that the group has strengthened its positions in and around Kabul, where it conducts most of its attacks, targeting minorities, activists, babus government employees and personnel of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
The report says that most recently, ISIS grabbed credit for the brutal attack of 8 June, when 10 humanitarian deminers working with HALO Trust in Baghlan Province were killed and 16 were maimed.
"In its efforts to resurge, ISIS-K has prioritized the recruitment and training of new supporters; its leaders also hope to attract intransigent Taliban
 ...Arabic for students ...
and other forces of Evil who reject the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan between the United States and the Taliban and to recruit fighters from the Syrian Arab Republic, Iraq and other conflict zones," the report says.
The report states that the estimates of the strength of ISIS’s Khorasan branch range widely, with one member state reporting between 500 and 1,500 fighters and another stating that it may rise to as many as 10,000 over the medium term.
"One member state stressed that ISIS-K was largely underground and clandestine," the report says. "Its leader, Shahab al-Muhajir, alias Sanaullah, cooperates with Sheikh Tamim, head of the al-Sadiq office."
The report says that Tamim and his office are tasked by ISIS core to oversee the network connecting the Khorasan branch with ISIS presences in the wider region.
The UN report says that as reported by the UN Monitoring Team in its twelfth report to the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011), al Qaeda is present in at least 15 Afghan provinces, primarily in the eastern, southern and south-eastern regions.
The report says that al Qaeda’s weekly Thabat newsletter reports on its operations inside Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) operates under Taliban protection from Kandahar, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
and Nimroz provinces, the report says.
Since the death of Asim Umar
...chief of al-Qaeda's Sharia Committee for Pakistain, named head of al-Qaeda in India. His video appearances are frequently accompanied by clips of al Qaeda's senior propagandist in Pakistan, Ahmad Farooq. Umar the author of The Army of Anti-Christ: Blackwater, Documentation of the Dreadful Terrorist Activities of America's Blackwater in Islamic Countries ...
in 2019, AQIS has been led by Osama Mahmood, the report says, adding that the group consists mainly of Afghan and Pak nationals, but also individuals from Bangladesh, India and Myanmar.
On 30 March, AQIS commander Dawlat Bek Tajiki (alias Abu Mohammad al-Tajiki) was killed by Afghan forces in Gyan district of Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province.
"Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
is assessed by member states to be alive but ailing in Afghanistan. Sayf Al Adl, his most likely successor, is reported to remain in the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran," the report states.
Member states differ as to what Al Adl’s options would be if he was called upon to succeed al-Zawahiri, but most assess that he would have to move and that basing himself in Afghanistan might not be an option, the report says.
The leadership succession calculations of Al Qaeda are complicated by the grinding of the peace processor in Afghanistan where, under the Doha agreement of February 2020, the Taliban is committed to suppressing any international terrorist threat, the report says, but adds that it is unclear whether Sayf-Al Adl would be able to travel to Afghanistan to take up the position of leader of Al Qaeda.
The report mentions that some member states point to his history of living and operating in Africa and assess that he might choose to base himself there.
The report also says that the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, IMU, faces financial difficulties and a Taliban that is less accommodating than it used to be.
That’s good news, at least. 
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