The Taliban claim to have defeated the self-declared Islamic State’s Afghan chapter, but exclusive information obtained by The Diplomat indicates that its success is not what it seems.

Commandos from the Afghan 'Triples' units went into hiding after the Taliban took over the country. UK Special Forces command rejected resettlement applications from more than 2,000 Afghan ...

Wahhabi Islam is more correctly called Salafism. Safa al Ahmad finds that, post the Arab uprisings, the Salafis are split between jihadists, democrats and apolitical pietists. Show more Wahhabism ...