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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Tajikistan Faces Threat from Tajik Taliban
2023-04-02
[Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst] In July 2022, reports emerged of a "new" murderous Moslem outfit in northern Afghanistan. A Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
-affiliated group, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Tajikistan is reportedly in charge of the security of five districts in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province. It has in its crosshairs the anti-Taliban resistance based in Tajikistan, the secular Tajik government and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-Khorasan Province. So how "new" is the TTT? And what are the implications of its rising presence and profile in Afghanistan’s border districts for the region?
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