Taliban-Afghan government peace talks commence;
Tajikistan sentences Brotherhood members;
Sudan separates religion and state;
Hezbollah: Banned in Switzerland?;
ISWAP strikes in northeast Nigeria

ISIS: Alive and kicking;
Jordan's Islamists increasingly on the outs;
Rising Islamist violence in Africa;
The Afghan "truce" takes hold

Flashpoint: Mozambique;
ISIS versus al-Qaeda in West Africa;
Hezbollah's inside game

The Taliban takes the offensive;
The Islamic State shows new signs of life;
Is America reducing its footprint in the Sinai?;
Turkey to Europe: Take back your radicals

Uighurs used as forced labor for China;
For ISIS, a resilient presence in Syria...;
...and a setback for Afghanistan;
ISIS sees opportunity amid Europe's lockdown;
A new caliphate forms in Africa