<Thread> Some thoughts on Pakistan in President Trump's National Security Strategy:
- The updated US #NSS is same old: pressure Pakistan, carrots & sticks, etc. This has stopped working for a long time and it won't start working now.
- America has failed in Afghanistan to achieve its official objectives (forget about unofficial objectives for now). US now must blame Pakistan to save face. People are asking: how did ISKP + dozens of other groups pop up in AFG right under nose of US & NATO? #NSS
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NEW: Wilayat Khurasan reports on operations against Askar al-Islam militia in Nangarhar. #Afghanistan#ISKP
CONFIRMED: The attack on a militia in Nangarhar that Islamic State claimed was against a Lashkar-e-Islam base. Lashkar-e-Islam was originally a Pakistan-based Jihadi group until most of its members moved to Afghanistan after Pakistani military launched a CT op.
The clashes between ISKP and Lashkar-e-Islam were also reported by local Afghan media. See: khabarpana.com/31717/%d9%86%d…
As per this report, over two dozen fighters combined of both groups were killed in the clashes.
Al-Qaeda's Al-Nashir media released a 13 page document by Muhammad Miqdaad, a Bangladeshi member of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), titled "Hypocrisy-free passion for freedom". The document is dated October but has been published across AQ networks few hours ago.
This isn't a first release by Muhammad Miqdaad. On 16th December (Bangladesh's Independence day) al-Qaeda's As-Sahab media released a 9 page document by Miqdaad in which he called on Bangladeshi Muslims to wage Jihad against Myanmar Army and Bangladeshi govt.
Both the 16th December document and the document released today have been produced by the an-Nasr Media. In November, AQIS released a video in which it said its aim was to "defend the Muslims of Pakistan, Kashmir, Bangladesh, India and Myanmar" from oppression in the region.