{"id":25504,"date":"2026-11-07T07:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T07:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/07\/taliban-intelligence-isis-social-media-security-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T07:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T07:46:11","slug":"taliban-intelligence-isis-social-media-security-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/07\/taliban-intelligence-isis-social-media-security-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Intelligence Chief Accuses ISIS of Expanding Security Threats via Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Haq Wasiq, head of the Taliban&#8217;s General Directorate of Intelligence, criticized ISIS for using social media platforms to communicate, fundraise, and promote ideological views during the first specialized security dialogue of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization &#8216;SCO Plus&#8217; held in Samarkand.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wasiq, ISIS exploits the non-cooperation of technology companies and the activities of Telegram and TikTok in Afghanistan. This lack of cooperation allows the group to expand its terrorist activities globally.<\/p>\n<p>Wasiq also stated that despite the Taliban administration\u2019s claims of combating ISIS, there are significant limitations in dismantling the technical infrastructure of the group.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that ISIS causes many civilian casualties annually across various countries and remains one of the major security challenges in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting took place on November 5 and 6 in Samarkand, attended by representatives from 24 countries and five international organizations, discussing issues such as terrorism, extremism, and emerging security threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban intelligence chief warns ISIS is spreading security threats worldwide using social media, highlighting challenges in combating the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}