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.

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.

<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