An assessment of Mullah Hibatullah’s tightly controlled appearance, the regime’s escalating security paranoia, emphasis on unity, counterintelligence vigilance, and extremist capability retention
Inside the ISI‑engineered rise of the Taliban: proxy wars, fractured jihadist alliances, and the covert architecture that paved the way for Haibatullah’s absolutist rule.
Wiretapped intelligence reveals Mullah Jumma Khan Fateh’s gold‑funded bid to arm northern depots, rally non‑Pashtun fighters, and challenge Haibatullah’s rule with a breakaway faction.
Haibatullah’s Omari Army storms Shaki to crush Mullah Jumma Khan Fateh’s northern faction, leaving his inner circle shattered and the battlefront expanding toward Nasi and Darwaz.
In the shadows of renewed U.S.–Iran hostilities, Washington engineers a covert alliance ''Kurdish militias, regional powers, and precision warfare'' poised to redraw the map of the Middle East.
How a splinter born from ideological defiance and internal betrayal has re‑emerged as a standalone jihadist force, threatening to destabilize the Afghanistan–Pakistan corridor once again