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Jihad on TikTok: How ISIS and the Taliban Use Social Media to Spread Extremism
BM Amaro/pexels.com TikTok, by simplifying content publishing and broadcasting through videos, photos, and audio clips, has become one of the most popular platforms among jihadists. I reviewed dozens of accounts on this platform, disseminating jihadi content in multiple languages from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and other countries. These accounts, each with thousands of followers, bypass TikTok’s algorithms using emojis, censoring forbidden words, and editing videos and text to avoid account suspension. Accounts broadcasting jiha…
Taliban Leader's Order: Free Land and Housing for Religious Clerics
Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban leader, has ordered that land be distributed free of charge to clerics affiliated with the group and those working within Taliban structures, including religious and jihadist schools. Special settlements for clerics are to be established in every province. Informed sources within the Taliban’s Ministry of Education, confirming this, shared documents with Independent Persian's journalist indicating that after being informed about settlements designated for teachers, the Taliban leader ordered simila…
Surviving the Amazon, Defying Borders: Afghan Migrants’ Path to the U.S.
In the past three years, a lesser-known migration route has been added to the well-known paths for Afghan migrants that previously included only Iran, Turkey, the Balkans, and Central Europe. Many Afghan migrants, despite the risk of death or falling into the hands of ruthless drug traffickers and criminal gangs, have taken this route, which begins in Brazil and, by crossing 11 countries in South America, leads to the United States. Afghans started on this path in September 2021, after the collapse of the Afghan Republic and the return of the …
Sanaullah Ghafari: The Path from Kabul University Student to ISIS-K Leadership
This report was written by Nilofar Langar for Independent Persian . The original version of this report was published in Farsi/Dari. After the deadly attack by ISIS-K on the Crocus concert hall in Moscow on March 2024, which led to the death of over 140 people and the injury of dozens, the name of the young leader of this group once again made headlines. However, there has always been contradictory and often misleading information in the media regarding the true identity of this man behind ISIS-K's deadly attacks. Now, Independent…
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