Pro-Taliban ‘fact-checking’ account takes on false accounts and problematic stories
By dismissing stories as ‘fake news’ and identifying fake profiles, the account utilises the weight and language of the ‘fact-checking’ brand, without doing the meaningful verification work required.
ISKP targets journalists in attack on Mazar-i-Sharif Tebyan Cultural Centre
This was the second ISKP-claimed attack targeting the Tebyan centre. In December 2017, the group claimed a suicide bombing at the Tebyan Cultural Centre in Kabul.
Taliban display bodies of alleged ‘kidnappers’, ‘insurgents’ and ‘thieves’
In recent weeks, there has been a spate of incidents in Mazar-i-Sharif and Herat city in which the Taliban have displayed the bodies of men they describe as ‘kidnappers’, ‘insurgents’ or ‘thieves’.