Inside Balochistan’s Escalating Insurgency
Published in The Conversation, 14 May 2026 Decoding Al-Mirsaad, The Afghan Taliban’s Strategic Communications Apparatus (1)

May 2026
Heretics, Adversaries, and Legitimacy: Decoding Al-Mirsaad, The Afghan Taliban’s Strategic Communications Apparatus
May 2026 New ICCT Analysis: Engineering the Virtual Caliphate — Islamic State’s Exploitation of Gen-Z Culture
By Saif Tahir & Amira Jadoon | Published in ICCT, 28 April 2026 Durand Dispatch: Strategic Messaging
Analyzing Invade: Islamic State’s New Pakistan-Focused Propaganda Magazine
Islamic State, Afghanistan, Pakistan From Chitral to Karachi: The Tehrik-i-Taliban’s Year-Long Geographic Expansion in 2025
For much of its existence, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been understood as a threat emanating from Pakistan’s Pashtun-dominated northwest — a regional insurgency with a bounded geographic logic. The events of 2025 challenge that framing. Across the past twelve… Realignment, Rivalry and the Limits of Engagement
United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan Relations Encircled and Entangled: What the Iran War Means for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Implications of the Iran War Why Insurgents Attack Americans: What the Data Tells Us and What to do About it
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