🇦🇫 An unverified internal 5:23-minute audio message purportedly from the Taliban, leaked and disseminated by pro-ISKP channels, reveals the Taliban's growing apprehension towards the ISKP group. Key points highlighted in the message to senior Taliban members include:

- The Taliban leadership's allowance of Salafi/Wahabi mosques and madrasas in Afghanistan, viewed as a compromise, is now resulting in incidents like the Kandahar explosion. Every Wahabi/Salafi individual is an ISKP member and adversary and should be eliminated.

- Active Salafi madrasas are identified in Nangarhar, Kunar, Nuristan, Kabul, and northern Afghanistan, which are bases for the ISKP.

- Foreign intelligence agencies, including the CIA, MI6, and ISI, utilize ISKP as their primary tool against the IEA, with Pakistan aiming to facilitate ISKP infiltration into Afghanistan amidst the ongoing Afghan-Pakistani border conflict.

- The resistance forces are motivated by financial gain rather than ideological fervor, posing minimal threat to the IEA. The real ideological threat lies with ISKP, necessitating decisive action.

- ISKP members operate clandestinely and are growing in numbers under cover of Salafi sect.

- The Islamic Emirate must combat ISKP in their safe havens in Pakistan by deploying suicide bombers and infiltrating their ranks.

- ISKP training centers, allegedly supported by Pakistani intelligence, are situated in Orakzai Agency, Yakatoot in Peshawar, Islamabad, Krash Adda in Quetta, and in Abbottabad of KPK.

- The persistence of ISKP poses dire consequences for the Islamic Emirate.

🔗 Afghan Analyst

🇦🇫❌🇵🇰 Afghan Taliban commander Abdul Hameed Khurasani made another provocative post against Pakistan where he is vowing that the Taliban will capture the Pakistani territory.

🔗 FJ

🇷🇺☪️ 1.8 million Muslims live in the Moscow metro area. Here are some of them praying on its streets, near one of the largest mosques in the world.

Moscow is thus 13% Muslim.

About 10% of the population of Russia is Muslim.

🔗 i/o

🇺🇸❌🇨🇺 Trump signals Cuban regime could ‘be changed’ if he’s reelected

“I want to express my admiration and support for all of the brave people of Cuba, who are standing up against the vile communist regime,” Trump said in a video posted Friday to Truth Social. “It’s not easy and we appreciate it and it’s gonna be changed.”

“Under Cuba’s brutal and corrupt dictators, the Cuban people are suffering terrible food shortages, energy blackouts, poverty, political repression, and religious persecution,” he added.

🔗 https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4551059-trump-signals-cuban-regime-could-be-changed-reelected/

🇺🇸 House leaves for a two-week break — without addressing Ukraine aid

The U.S. ally is running dangerously low on ammunition in its war with Russia. Speaker Mike Johnson said this week's priority was averting a shutdown and Ukraine will be next.

After voting to avert a government shutdown Friday, the House left town for its two-week Easter recess without passing critical military aid for Ukraine as the war-torn nation runs dangerously low on ammunition in its fight against the Russian invasion.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he wanted to finish funding the government before shifting his attention to foreign aid for a trio of U.S. allies: Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. And he has rebuffed calls from other leaders to put the $95 billion Senate-passed aid package on the House floor, saying he is drafting his own Ukraine package.

But it means that the lower chamber won’t address funding for Kyiv until mid-April — at the earliest. And Johnson has given few hints as to how he might construct his supplemental aid package, though he maintains it is a priority.

“There’s a number of avenues that we’ve been looking at to address that,” Johnson told reporters this week, adding that funding the U.S. government needed to come first. “And having done that now, we’ll turn our attention to it and we won’t delay.”

🔗 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-leaves-two-week-break-addressing-ukraine-aid-rcna144446

🇷🇺⚰️❗️ — Russian-Armenian Journalist & Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan reported that the number of victims of the terrorist attack in Crocus has reached 143 fatal victims

https://t.me/rian_ru/237545

🇺🇸 Justice Department Launches the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center

The Justice Department launched the National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center (the Center) which will provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.

🔗 https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-launches-national-extreme-risk-protection-order-resource-center

🇷🇺🇺🇸 If Russia rejected US terror alert, then it won't be 1st time RF and US have not taken each other's terror warnings - recall Tamerlan Tsarnaev

🔗 Simon saradzhyan

🇺🇸🇬🇷 U.S. 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division’s equipment staged at the Port of Alexandroupolis, Greece in preparation for onward movement into the European theater for a nine-month regular deployment as a rotational ABCT, March 15, 2024

🔗 Baltic Security

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli settlers step up attacks on Palestinian farms, expanding West Bank outposts

As recently as last November, Israeli settlers chased away the Palestinian inhabitants of Zanuta, a small village in the West Bank. Since then, the settlers bulldozed the local school and are trying to make sure the Palestinians never come back to their homes.

Weiman says one settler is responsible for this village fleeing: Yinon Levi. He owns a bulldozer and lives in an outpost unauthorized by Israel that's visible on a neighboring hillside.

"It's not just about stealing livestock. It's about destroying the sense of being safe, of living, of going to school" — Nadav Weiman, deputy director of Breaking the Silence

Weiman says the outposts are sprouting up all over the South Hebron Hills, with at least seven new ones since Oct. 7. He says the settlers who live in them are more extremist.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2024/03/23/1236628495/israel-settlers-attack-west-bank-palestinians-settlement-outposts

🇺🇸 ‘I want a fighter’: Donald Trump Jr. lobbying dad to pick one of these possible running mates

“In 2016 you needed someone to balance out [the ticket] — that’s where Mike Pence made sense, sort of the yin and yang, but [given] the vicious nature of the swamp and the insanity we see on a daily basis, you need someone who can take those hits,” said Trump Jr., 46, the oldest of the former president’s five children.

The former first son — who speaks to his father daily, often several times a day — said he’s been pushing people like Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio); Vivek Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur and former GOP presidential candidate; and Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News host who now hosts a program on X

Trump daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner both served in senior White House roles during his last term, but Trump Jr. said he and fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, who also remains close to the campaign, had no plans on becoming a second “Javanka” in the West Wing — but that he’d “never rule anything out."

🔗 https://nypost.com/2024/03/23/us-news/donald-trump-jr-is-lobbying-trump-for-these-vp-candidates/

Ignoring the raids on Belgorod by the 🇷🇺🇷🇺 Russian opposition and 🐺 Chechen separatists, which at this point have no relation to today's events apparently, a short timeline:

February 16, 2024:
🇷🇺❌🏴 — Two Russian fighter jets executed eight consecutive airstrikes on ISIS positions in Al-Raqqah, Homs and the Deir ez-Zor deserts, but no casualties were reported.
https://t.me/AssyriaNewsNetwork/3274

February 20, 2024:
🇷🇺❌🏴 — Russian warplanes launched a series of airstrikes targeting ISIS cells in Al-Sukhnah desert in the eastern countryside of Homs, and Al-Rasafah desert in Al-Raqqah countryside.
https://t.me/AssyriaNewsNetwork/3308

February 22, 2024:
🇷🇺❌🏴 — Russian warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on positions in Al-Boshra, Al-Rasafa and Palmyra, which are believed to shelter ISIS cells.
https://t.me/AssyriaNewsNetwork/3346

February 28, 2024:
🇷🇺❌🏴 — Russian airstrikes target ISIS positions in the Palmyra desert concentrating on positions where ISIS cells are hiding in the desert in the eastern countryside of Homs.
https://t.me/AssyriaNewsNetwork/3440

March 03, 2024:

🇷🇺❌🏴 — Russian Special Forces and FSB clash with Islamic State Terrorists in Republic of Ingushetia's Karabulak. 7 Terrorists KIA by Special Forces
https://t.me/BellumActaNews/115843

March 05, 2024:
🇷🇺❌🏴 — Russian Air Force warplanes conduct 6x Air Raids against Remnants of Islamic State in Syria, over the Raqqah Desert
https://t.me/AssyriaNewsNetwork/3539
March 06-07, 2024:

🇷🇺❌🇷🇺 — Ingushetia Liberation Army claims that its fighters and Russian FSB clashed on the outskirts of Karabulak for 24 hours, with according to them the "ILA Mujahideen fighting in unprepared defensive positions" against the "Evil Empire" (Russia). No details were disclosed by the group.
https://t.me/Galgay_Eskar/55

March 07, 2024:
🇷🇺❌🏴 — Russian FSB conducts a raid on the suburbs of Moscow, 2x Terrorists of Islamic State - Khorasan Province (ISIS/ISKP) who were planning to attack a Jewish synagogue in Moscow are killed
https://t.me/war_noir/14747

🇷🇺⚫️ CIG #commentary | Despite solid evidence that the Islamic State is behind the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, with ISIS themselves claiming responsibility, Russian news channels and other pro-Russian Western pundits are pushing the narrative that Ukraine and Vladimir Zelensky are the real masterminds.

Vladimir Putin and the Federal Security Service (FSB) are trying to cover up their embarrassing failure which allowed 4 jihadists to torch a concert hall in Moscow and kill over 143 people and then attempt an escape after receiving a heads up from U.S. intelligence three weeks ago about potential ISIS/ISKP activity in Russia. They are trying to spin it up as being the work of the SBU by falsely claiming that the terrorists are either Chechens and are affiliated with the Ajnad-al-Kavkaz group or that they are simply jihadist Tadjiks recruited by Ukraine and fight an irregular war against Russia.

Perhaps after annihilating two ISKP cells in Ingushetia earlier this month, the FSB let its guard down thinking they terminated all threats coming from ISKP but they were wrong. The ISKP remains ISIS' strongest and most prolific franchise with a number of cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with links to jihadists in India and likely receiving aid from Pakistani intelligence.

The ISKP has been able to penetrate Iran, bombing the city of Kerman in January 2024, where IRGC general, Qassem Soleimani is buried.

ISIS is on the rise again not just in Central Asia, but also in the Middle East, now that the eyes of the powers who were dealing with ISIS are focused elsewhere, Russia's FSB on Ukrainian sabotage, Iran and the U.S. on events in Gaza and Lebanon. Attacks like the Crocus City Hall will become more common unless the security agencies all over the world take ISIS and its branches seriously.

@CIG_telegram