Child soldiers and suicide training the disturbing tactics of ISIL-K in Afghanistan
By 2025, ISIL-K remains one of the gravest threats to the security of the South and Central Asia region, specifically to the region of Afghanistan. Its persistence is not the only unique feature of the group since there is also the systematic recruitment of children and their subsequent weaponization process. Under its strategy of conscripting […]
US designation of TRF reinforces Indo-American counterterrorism partnership
On July 25, 2025, the United States formally declared The Resistance Front (TRF) a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) which had been a historic turning point in a shifting Indo-American counterterrorism campaign. TRF, an arm of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was cited in direct connection with the April 22 attack […]
Acts of Terrorism or War? Revisiting the 1982 Iranian Diplomat Case
The Iranian diplomat case of 1982 commenced as the Israeli troops invaded Lebanon, which altered the geopolitical layout of the Middle East. In the middle of this struggle, four Iranian nationals: Ahmad Motevaselian, Mohsen Mousavi, Taghi Rastegar Moghaddam, and Kazem Akhavan went missing on their way from the Iranian embassy in Damascus to Beirut. Their […]
The Taliban’s Denial and the Growing Threat of Terrorist Safe Havens
Ever since the Taliban have taken over Afghanistan in August 2021, there have been fears that the nation may transform into a nesting place of terrorist organizations. Regardless of denial upon denial by the Taliban authorities, increasing data reported by the United Nations, security experts, and authorities point to the fact that Afghanistan still serves […]
Putin Sounds Alarm on Afghan Instability and CSTO’s Fragile Border Security
In 2025, President Vladimir Putin issued a pointed warning about growing instability in Afghanistan and the impact of the instability on the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) states. The CSTO is a military alliance of six post-Soviet states led by Russia, and is in a precarious security environment complicated further by an unstable Afghanistan. This […]
Putin’s Wake-Up Call: Afghanistan’s Instability and the CSTO’s Fragile Security Environment
In 2025, President Vladimir Putin issued a pointed warning about growing instability in Afghanistan and the impact of the instability on the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) states. The CSTO is a military alliance of six post-Soviet states led by Russia, and is in a precarious security environment complicated further by an unstable Afghanistan. This […]
Indonesian counter-terrorism unit detains suspected terrorist
According to police, a guy suspected of terrorism was taken into custody by Densus 88, Indonesia’s top counterterrorism team, in Central Java. Suspected to be a JAD sympathizer connected to the ISIS terrorist network, the local guy, identified by the initial A, had previously joined the Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) organization in Poso, Central Sulawesi. […]
U.S. delivers justice to India with extradition of terror plotter Tahawwur Rana
A suspect who was detained for helping the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that claimed dozens of lives has been extradited to India by the United States, 17 years after India was shaken by one of the worst atrocities to have occurred on the nation’s soil. Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a man of Pakistani descent but with […]
Pakistan’s leadership rallies against terrorism after BLA train attack
Pakistan’s prime minister urged the country’s political leadership unity to combat terrorism and militants with the full force of the nation following a wave in deadly terrorist activities. Separatists in Balochistan last week took over a train and shot dead 26 hostages before security forces killed all 33 attackers in one of the most harmful […]
Indian authorities bust BKI-linked terror module
Indian authorities in the state of Punjab have disrupted a narco-terror module connected to the outlawed terrorist outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) with the detention of three key members from Bihar while they were trying to flee to Nepal. Director General of Police, Punjab Gaurav Yadav, stated that those apprehended have been recognised as Mukesh […]