Leaders, Fighters, & Suicide Attackers

Insights on TTP Militant Mobility

CTC Sentinel, May 2025

Amira Jadoon, Decoding Pakistan’s 2024 Airstrikes in Afghanistan, War on the Rocks, March 7 2025

Amira Jadoon, Abdul Sayed, Lucas Webber, Riccardo Valle, "From Tajikistan to Moscow and Iran," CTC Sentinel, May 2024

Amira Jadoon, “Explaining the Broader Implications of Islamic State-Khorasan’s Moscow Attack,’ Stimson Center, South Asian Voices, April 16, 2024

Sarah Haramoush and Amira Jadoon, “How Moscow Terror Attack Fits ISIS-K Strategy to Widen Agenda, Take Fight to its Perceived Enemies,” The Conversation, January 2024, March 2024

Amira Jadoon and Nakissa Jahanbani, “Iran Terror Blast Highlights Success – And Growing Risk – of ISIS-K Regional Strategy,” The Conversation, January 2024.

Amira Jadoon, "Rude Awakening: Pakistan's Limited Leverage Over the Afghan Taliban," in Afghanistan Under the Taliban: Enduring Challenges, 
Evolving Responses, edited by Shivam Shekhawa, Special Report  223, Observer Research Foundation (ORF),  March 2024 

Amira Jadoon and Iqraa Bukhari, "A Looming Challenge: Women in Pakistan's Terrorism Landscape," 9Dashline, August 14, 2023.

Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines and Abdul Sayed, "The Enduring Duel: Islamic State Khorasan’s Survival under Afghanistan’s New Rulers," The CTC Sentinel 16 (8), August 2023.

Abdul Sayed and Amira Jadoon, "Lashkar-e-Jhangvi’s Role in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Militant Infrastructure," The Hudson Institute, March 30, 2023.

Andrew Mines and Amira Jadoon, "A String of Assassinations in Afghanistan Point to ISIS-K Resurgence," The Conversation, March 21, 2023.

Abdul Sayed and Amira Jadoon, "Understanding Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan's Unrelenting Posture," George Washington University, Program on Extremism, Nexus Article, August 16, 2022.

Andrew Mines and Amira Jadoon, "A Year After the Fall of Kabul, Taliban’s False Commitments on Terrorism have Been Fully Exposed," The Conversation, August 15, 2022.

Amira Jadoon, "The Untenable TTP-Pakistan Negotiations,"   South Asian Voices, June 24, 2022,

Haroro Ingram, Amira Jadoon, and Andrew Mines, "Islamic State Leader Killed in U.S. Raid - Where does this Leave the Group?" The Conversation, February 3, 2022.

Amira Jadoon, Abdul Sayed and Andrew Mines, "The Islamic State Threat in Taliban Afghanistan: Tracing the Resurgence of Islamic State Khorasan," The CTC Sentinel 15 (1), January 2022.

Amira Jadoon and Abdul Sayed, "The Pakistani Taliban Is Reinventing Itself," South Asian Voices, November 15, 2021.

Amira Jadoon and Andrew Mines, "The Taliban can't take on the Islamic State alone," The War on the Rocks, October 14, 2021.

Charmaine Willis, Nakissa Jahanbani and Amira Jadoon, Nakissa Jahanbani,"Recent Trends in Women and Militancy in Transnational Jihadist Groups in Southeast Asia," in Counterterrorism and Domestic Security after Afghanistan, Analyzing War,  September/October 2021.

Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines and Abdul Sayed, "The Evolving Taliban-ISK Rivalry," The Interpreter, Lowy Institute, Sydney, Australia, September 7, 2021.

Amira Jadoon and Andrew Mines, "What is ISIS-K; Two Terrorism Experts on the Group behind the Deadly Kabul Attack and its Rivalry with the Taliban," The Conversation, August 26, 2021.

Amira Jadoon, and Abdul Sayed, "How to Deal with ISIS' Affiliate in Afghanistan," Inkstick Media, March 10, 2021.

Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines and Abdul Sayed, "Smaller and Smarter: Defining a Narrower U.S. Counterterrorism Mission in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Region, "Newslines Institute, February 11, 2021.

Amira Jadoon. October 2020. "Gendering Recruitment into Violent Organizations: Lessons for Counter-Terrorism Operations." Texas National Security Review 4 (1), Winter 2020/21,

Amira Jadoon. June 9, 2020.  "Islamic State Khorasan: Attempting to Absorb Rival Groups," ISIS 2020: A Series of Briefings from the Non-state Actors and Geopolitics Program,  Center for Global Policy, Washington D.C. 

Andrew Mines and Amira Jadoon. May 17, 2020.  "Can the Islamic State's Afghan Province Survive Its Leadership Losses?" Lawfare Foreign Policy Essays Series.

Amira Jadoon and Andrew Mines. September 2019. " Taking Aim: Islamic State Khorasan's Leadership Losses." CTC Sentinel 12:8.

Andrew Mines and Amira Jadoon. October 2019. "Islamic State Affiliate Seeks to Expand in Afghanistan." Lawfare.

Amira Jadoon and Sara Mahmood. December 2018. " Fixing the Cracks in the Pakistani Taliban's Foundation: TTP's Leadership Returns to the Mehsud Tribe." CTC Sentinel 11:11.

Amira Jadoon. September 10, 2018. "Militant Landscape, Tactics and Pakistan's War  on Terror." Pakistan Politico.

Amira Jadoon, Nakissa Jahanbani, and Charmaine Willis. April 2018. " Challenging the ISK Brand in Afghanistan-Pakistan: Rivalries and Divided Loyalties." CTC Sentinel 11:8.

Amira Jadoon. February 9, 2018. "An Idea or a Threat? Islamic State in Jammu and Kashmir." Combating Terrorism Center Perspectives. 

Amira Jadoon and Sara Mahmood. September 14, 2017. "Militant Rivalries Extend to Female Recruitment in Pakistan." Combating Terrorism Center Perspectives.