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The Taliban and ISIS-Khorasan: A Real Rivalry or a Strategic Game to Engineer Crisis?

Archive, Emerging ThreatsAfghanistan, Chinese, Haqqani Network, ISIS-K, ISIS-Khorasan, Islamic Terrorists, regional actors, regional threat, Russian, Taliban, Terrorist

The Taliban and ISIS-Khorasan: A Real Rivalry or a Strategic Game to Engineer Crisis?

Kabul Analyst0 Comments

In Afghanistan’s post-2021 security landscape, the prevailing narrative is that the Taliban and ISIS-Khorasan (ISKP) are locked in an existential struggle for control of the country. At first glance, the…

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Iran Can Reconfigure Its Foothold in Post-Assad Syria

Archive, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesAlawite, Bashar al Assad, civil war, Damascus, Druze, governance, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Hizballah, ideological footprint, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Israel, Kurdistan Regional Government, Kurds, Middle East, military proxies, Modafean-e Haram, Quds, regional actors, resistance axis., Russia, Sayyida Zaynab, self-determination, Sunni Islamist regime, Syria, transitional constitution, Turkey, unrest

Iran Can Reconfigure Its Foothold in Post-Assad Syria

Loqman Radpey0 Comments

Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Iran initially denied the presence of its forces on Syrian soil, despite evidence to the contrary. Later, Tehran was forced…

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