A large Pashto jihadist manual promotes broad takfir, rejects elections and state institutions as disbelief, delegitimizes mainstream Salafi leaders, and normalizes armed resistance as the only acceptable path for true believers.

Al Naba Editorial 510 portrays Western governments and Syrian jihadist rivals as co-manufacturers of false militant movements and urges followers to reject all alternatives and embrace ISIS’s doctrine of “Just Terror.”

Trump’s rejected ultimatum for Maduro to leave Venezuela, combined with a declared closure of Venezuelan airspace and ongoing lethal counterdrug operations, signals a shift toward open coercive pressure that heightens the risk of targeted strikes and rapid escalation even as Washington insists it will not send ground troops.

Guinea-Bissau’s army has deposed President Embaló and installed General Horta N’Tam as transitional leader, but opposition claims that the coup was staged to avoid electoral defeat deepen uncertainty in a country already prone to military takeovers and criminal influence.

ISIS Pashto Media Publishes Message Claiming Global Expansion and Mocking Reports of the Group’s Defeat

ISIS Al Naba issue 523 uses embellished battlefield reports from Africa and South Asia and an editorial about a “war between two projects” to show that its West Africa and East Africa networks remain active while attacking rival Islamist groups and local security partners.