Social Media HO/ via Reuters A man, who purportedly is a Taliban militant, holds a wireless microphone as he speaks on the street in Kabul, Afghanistan, in this still image taken from social media video uploaded Aug.... The Taliban now has the ability to communicate directly with the rest of the world, as well as to control the narrative around events as it has been trying to do for years at home and abroad through a barrage of messages on social media.... Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images A

ISIS-K has also regularly battled with Taliban forces.In a country where militant factions routinely used roadside bombings and shooting rampages against civilians, ISIS-K emerged as the harshest of them all.... That same day, the group claimed an attack on a funeral procession that killed 32 people. The extremists seemed to revel in complex operations designed to sow maximum fear.... That was followed by two more blasts....

The US Supreme Court might have just insured that Donald Trump will not face a criminal trial for his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election before the next one.... If a ruling comes sooner than later, perhaps in May, and the case is allowed to continue, a jury won’t be selected until later this summer, with a trial wrapping up in October, at the earliest.... In front of the high court earlier this month, an attorney for Mr Trump argued that the attack was a mere riot, not an insu