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Ivory Edge: Academic Insights & Policy
Ivory Edge

Ivory Edge: Academic Insights & Policy

Reassurance Under Pressure: Nuclear Shadows and Kashmir's New Crisis

Review: The Baloch Insurgency in Pakistan by Verma, Baloch, and Valle (April 2025)

Review: The Baloch Insurgency in Pakistan by Verma, Baloch, and Valle (April 2025)

Review Article

The War of Assumptions: Key Takeaways from the U.S. Afghanistan War Commission’s Second Public Hearing

The War of Assumptions: Key Takeaways from the U.S. Afghanistan War Commission’s Second Public Hearing

Review Article

Between Borders and Politics: The Woes of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan
Afghanistan Refugees

Between Borders and Politics: The Woes of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan

Feature Article

Qambar Ali
Spotlight: Women's Inheritance Rights Under the Taliban

Spotlight: Women's Inheritance Rights Under the Taliban

Afghanistan Analysts Network Report Review

Joey Moran, +1
Decoding Pakistan’s 2024 Airstrikes in Afghanistan

Decoding Pakistan’s 2024 Airstrikes in Afghanistan

War on the Rocks, March 7, 2025

Amira Jadoon
Pakistan Ranked as World's 2nd Most Terrorism -Affected Country

Pakistan Ranked as World's 2nd Most Terrorism -Affected Country

Global Terrorism Index 2025 Review

Amira Jadoon, +1
From Tajikistan to Moscow and Iran: Mapping the Local and Transnational Threat of Islamic State Khorasan - CTC Sentinel, May 2024, Volume 17, Issue 5

From Tajikistan to Moscow and Iran: Mapping the Local and Transnational Threat of Islamic State Khorasan - CTC Sentinel, May 2024, Volume 17, Issue 5

Amira Jadoon, Abdul Sayed, Lucas Webber & Riccardo Valle

Explaining the Broader Implications of Islamic State-Khorasan’s Moscow Attack • Stimson Center

Explaining the Broader Implications of Islamic State-Khorasan’s Moscow Attack • Stimson Center

Amira Jadoon

How Moscow terror attack fits ISIS-K strategy to widen agenda, take fight to its perceived enemies

How Moscow terror attack fits ISIS-K strategy to widen agenda, take fight to its perceived enemies

Sara Harmouch & Amira Jadoon

Iran terror blast highlights success – and growing risk – of ISIS-K regional strategy

Iran terror blast highlights success – and growing risk – of ISIS-K regional strategy

Amira Jadoon & Nakissa Jahanbani

Rude Awakening: Pakistan’s Limited Leverage Over theAfghan Taliban

Rude Awakening: Pakistan’s Limited Leverage Over theAfghan Taliban

Amira Jadoon

9DASHLINE  — A looming challenge: Women in Pakistan’s terrorism landscape

9DASHLINE — A looming challenge: Women in Pakistan’s terrorism landscape

Amira Jadoon & Iqraa Bukhari

The Enduring Duel: Islamic State Khorasan’s Survival under Afghanistan’s New Rulers - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

The Enduring Duel: Islamic State Khorasan’s Survival under Afghanistan’s New Rulers - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines & Abdul Sayed

A year after the fall of Kabul, Taliban’s false commitments on terrorism have been fully exposed

A year after the fall of Kabul, Taliban’s false commitments on terrorism have been fully exposed

Andrew Mines & Amira Jadoon

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi’s Role in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Militant Infrastructure

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi’s Role in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Militant Infrastructure

Abdul Sayed & Amira Jadoon

A string of assassinations in Afghanistan point to ISIS-K resurgence – and US officials warn of possible attacks on American interests in next 6 months

A string of assassinations in Afghanistan point to ISIS-K resurgence – and US officials warn of possible attacks on American interests in next 6 months

Andrew Mines & Amira Jadoon

Understanding Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan's Unrelenting Posture | Program on Extremism | The George Washington University

Understanding Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan's Unrelenting Posture | Program on Extremism | The George Washington University

Abdul Sayed & Amira Jadoon

The Untenable TTP-Pakistan Negotiations – South Asian Voices

The Untenable TTP-Pakistan Negotiations – South Asian Voices

Amira Jadoon

Islamic State leader killed in US raid – where does this leave the terrorist group?

Islamic State leader killed in US raid – where does this leave the terrorist group?

Haroro Ingram, Amira Jadoon & Andrew Mines

The Islamic State Threat in Taliban Afghanistan: Tracing the Resurgence of Islamic State Khorasan - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

The Islamic State Threat in Taliban Afghanistan: Tracing the Resurgence of Islamic State Khorasan - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

Amira Jadoon, Abdul Sayed & Andrew Mines

The Pakistani Taliban Is Reinventing Itself – South Asian Voices

The Pakistani Taliban Is Reinventing Itself – South Asian Voices

Amira Jadoon & Abdul Sayed

The Taliban Can’t Take on the Islamic State Alone - War on the Rocks

The Taliban Can’t Take on the Islamic State Alone - War on the Rocks

Amira Jadoon & Andrew Mines

Explaining the Broader Implications of Islamic State-Khorasan’s Moscow Attack • Stimson Center

Explaining the Broader Implications of Islamic State-Khorasan’s Moscow Attack • Stimson Center

Amira Jadoon

The Evolving Taliban-ISK rivalry

The Evolving Taliban-ISK rivalry

Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines & Abdul Sayed

What is ISIS-K? Two terrorism experts on the group behind the deadly Kabul airport attack and its rivalry with the Taliban

What is ISIS-K? Two terrorism experts on the group behind the deadly Kabul airport attack and its rivalry with the Taliban

Amira Jadoon & Andrew Mines

How To Deal With ISIS’ Affiliate in Afghanistan

How To Deal With ISIS’ Affiliate in Afghanistan

Amira Jadoon & Abdul Sayed

Smaller and Smarter: Defining a Narrower U.S. Counterterrorism Mission in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Region

Smaller and Smarter: Defining a Narrower U.S. Counterterrorism Mission in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Region

Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines & Abdul Sayed

Gendering Recruitment Into Violent Organizations: Lessons For Counter-Terrorism Operations

Gendering Recruitment Into Violent Organizations: Lessons For Counter-Terrorism Operations

Amira Jadoon

Islamic State in Khorasan: Attempting to Absorb Rival Groups

Islamic State in Khorasan: Attempting to Absorb Rival Groups

Amira Jadoon

Can the Islamic State's Afghan Province Survive Its Leadership Losses?

Can the Islamic State's Afghan Province Survive Its Leadership Losses?

Andrew Mines & Amira Jadoon

Taking Aim: Islamic State Khorasan’s Leadership Losses

Taking Aim: Islamic State Khorasan’s Leadership Losses

Amira Jadoon & Andrew Mines

Islamic State Affiliate Seeks to Expand in Afghanistan

Islamic State Affiliate Seeks to Expand in Afghanistan

Andrew Mines & Amira Jadoon

Fixing the Cracks in the Pakistani Taliban’s Foundation: TTP’s Leadership Returns to the Mehsud Tribe

Fixing the Cracks in the Pakistani Taliban’s Foundation: TTP’s Leadership Returns to the Mehsud Tribe

Amira Jadoon & Sara Mahmood

The Militant Landscape, Tactics & Pakistan’s War on Terror

The Militant Landscape, Tactics & Pakistan’s War on Terror

Amira Jadoon

Challenging the ISK Brand in Afghanistan-Pakistan: Rivalries and Divided Loyalties

Challenging the ISK Brand in Afghanistan-Pakistan: Rivalries and Divided Loyalties

Amira Jadoon, Nakissa Jahanbani & Charmaine Willis

An Idea or a Threat? Islamic State Jammu & Kashmir

An Idea or a Threat? Islamic State Jammu & Kashmir

Amira Jadoon

Militant Rivalries Extend to Female Recruitment in Pakistan - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

Militant Rivalries Extend to Female Recruitment in Pakistan - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

Amira Jadoon & Sara Mahmood