Welcome to Militancy Chowk

Chowk is an Urdu word meaning “crossroad”. The aim of this website is to highlight the local and international linkages - crossroads - in the world of armed militancy.

Subscribe to get full access to new contents and archives on the militant landscape in the Khorasan region and beyond. Periodically, new posts will provide new up-to-date developments, describing them and commenting the dynamics behind them.

Contents might range from descriptions of militant group’s propaganda to summaries of publications to analyses of activities of militant organisations, regional and global ones.

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Monitoring militant groups primarily but not exclusively in the Khorasan region. Analysis of conflicts, armed groups and propaganda from global and local armed movements, particularly jihadist organisations.

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Riccardo Valle is a researcher on security and international jihadist non-state actors, particularly in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. He is Director of Research at The Khorasan Diary (https://thekhorasandiary.com/) Twitter: @Valle_Riccardo_