Islamic State in Afghanistan ‘underneath management’, say Taliban

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mentioned Wednesday that the menace posed by the Islamic State group within the nation was “more or less under control” regardless of current bloody assaults which have killed dozens.

Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid informed a information convention that IS was “not a great threat”, including that round 600 members or sympathisers had been arrested because the Taliban seized management of the nation in mid-August.He mentioned there have been even a number of girls amongst these captured, who could be questioned by different girls.“They are not many in Afghanistan, because they do not have the support of the people,” mentioned Mujahid, including that the Taliban have been persevering with operations in opposition to their Islamist foes.ALSO READ | Taliban say no proof of al-Qaeda or ISIS presence in AfghanistanA Sunni group just like the Taliban, the Islamic State group is extra excessive and advocates a “global jihad” relatively than a nationwide battle.The group got here to prominence when it proclaimed a caliphate in Syria in 2014, inspiring various offshoots elsewhere together with “Khorasan”, a historic area spanning elements of modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkmenistan.Mujahid mentioned that not like its counterpart within the Middle East, IS-Khorasan was principally made up of native fighters, and that its presence in Afghanistan was not a menace to different nations.Still, the group has claimed duty for a collection of bloody assaults because the Taliban’s return to energy.One of the most recent, in early November, noticed IS fighters raid the Kabul National Military Hospital, killing not less than 19 individuals and injuring greater than 50.ALSO READ | Islamic State in Afghanistan might be capable to assault US in 6 months: Pentagon officialIS-Okay brazenly targets the Shiite minority — who they think about heretical — and particularly the Hazaras.More than 120 individuals have been killed in IS assaults earlier this 12 months on two mosques common with Hazaras.