Afghan Intelligence: Six ISIS Media Activists Arrested In Kabul City Were Active On Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram

April 5, 2019

On April 4, 2019, the Khaama Press News Agency reported that Haris Jebran, a spokesman of the National Directorate of Security, which is the Afghan intelligence agency, had announced the same day that six Islamic State (ISIS) media activists had been arrested in Kabul City.[1] Jebran said that those arrested had spread pro-ISIS messaging on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Telegram. He further said that, in a separate operation in Nangarhar province, Afghan intelligence had arrested 10 other ISIS operatives, who were involved in arms smuggling, assassination, and transporting the family members of ISIS loyalists, and seized 12,500 kilograms of explosives.


[1] Khaama.com/6-isis-media-activists-arrested-in-kabul-city-03644, April 4, 2019.

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