Militant Wire

1 month ago | militantwire.com | Lucas Webber

On January 21st, 2025, Islamic State’s Khurasan Province (ISKP) jihadists using automatic rifles shot a Chinese mining worker to death in Afghanistan’s Northeast Takhar Province while being driven with his interpreter to the Dasht-e-Qala district when their vehicle was ambushed. The Islamic State (IS) officially claimed the attack not long after, which is the latest in ISKP’s intensifying campaign of targeting foreign nationals.

1 month ago | militantwire.com | Lucas Webber

In the summer of 2023, after engaging in a brutal battle of attrition against Ukrainian forces over the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, where thousands of drugged up Russian convicts employed by the private military company the Wagner Group had been thrown at Ukranian defenses, taking the city inch by tiny inch, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin announced via Telegram that he was starting a “March for Justice.” Enraged by what he saw as the Russian Ministry of Defense’s corruption and...

Nov 17, 2024 | militantwire.com | Lucas Webber

On October 7 in Karachi, Pakistan, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) carried out a suicide bombing against a convoy of Chinese nationals departing from the country’s largest airport. Two Chinese nationals were killed and another was amongst at least 10 others who were injured in the blast. Pakistan’s Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb stated that those targeted in the attack were involved in ongoing energy debt restructuring negotiations between China and the Pakistani government.

Jul 23, 2024 | militantwire.com | Lucas Webber

The Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP), has emerged as IS’s most globally minded branch and the greatest international terrorist threat in Eurasia, as demonstrated by the March 22nd assault on the Crocus City Hall venue in Moscow which killed at least 145 people and injured as many as 551 others.

Jul 14, 2024 | militantwire.com | Riccardo Valle

The Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow, Russia, on March 22, which the Islamic State carried out, sparked a new anti-West propaganda campaign by the organization and its branches, raising the threat alert in Europe, the US, and other countries. In parallel, between March and June, a high number of plots linked to the Islamic State were disrupted by security forces across Europe and Western countries, with an emphasis on the targeting of sporting events.