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Branch of the Islamic State operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan
There is no single, authoritative count of “how many terrorist attacks have there been” in 2025 in the provided sources; reporting instead documents several high‑profile attacks and multiple disrupted...
Islamist-motivated terrorism in Europe remains an evolving but uneven threat: the continent saw a sharp rise in deadly jihadi attacks after 2014 and continued pressure from IS-inspired plots and netwo...
Islamist terrorism shows both revival in lethality and geographic spread in 2024–2025: the Global Terrorism Index finds Islamic State remained the deadliest group in 2025, causing 1,805 deaths and ope...
The immediate military cost of the withdrawal from was concentrated in a single catastrophic event—an suicide bombing at that killed 13 U.S. service members and wounded dozens—while extracted tens of ...
Global Islamist extremist attacks rose sharply after 2000, peaked in the mid-2010s driven by the expansion of groups such as al‑Qaeda and especially ISIS, and have since morphed into a more geographic...
The U.S. completed its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, after which U.S. forces airlifted roughly 124,000 people out during the chaotic evacuation and 13 U.S. service members were kil...
President Trump’s 2020 Doha agreement with the Taliban set a firm U.S. withdrawal deadline of May 1, 2021 and called for the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners — decisions officials say helped “box in...
Academic journals, think‑tanks and media research centres — not centralized trackers — document how ISIS mentions or targets “intellectuals” in its propaganda; notable overviews include the Reuters In...
Islamist terrorism remained a dominant and evolving global threat in 2024–2025, with the Islamic State and its affiliates responsible for some of the deadliest attacks and highest casualty totals — th...
The February 29, 2020 U.S.–Taliban “Doha” agreement committed the Taliban to prevent Afghan soil from being used against the U.S., set a U.S. troop‑withdrawal timetable and envisioned intra‑Afghan tal...
Former President Donald Trump criticized the Biden-era evacuation from Kabul and later commented on the airport’s security and related matters in 2025, tying those comments to ongoing policy decisions...
Executive Summary ISIS has not publicly endorsed any U.S. local political candidates in the sources provided. Reporting and ISIS communications from late 2024 through January 2025 show condemnation of...
Social media is a central enabler of religious and ideological recruitment, serving as a toolset for dissemination, networking, operational guidance, and evasion of detection; digital handbooks and pl...