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Afghanistan
ISIS still posing serious threats to Afghanistan: Sediqi
2017-01-22
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group still pose serious threats to Afghanistan, a Ministry of Interior (MoI) official said Saturday.

MoI front man Sediq Sediqi told news hounds in Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
that the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) continue to maintain pressure on the loyalists of the terror group in East of Afghanistan.

Sediqi further added that ISIS loyalists have managed to harm the residents of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province.

He said the Afghan forces continue to suppress the loyalists of the terror group in Nangarhar provinces, specifically in Achin, Kot, and Deh Bala districts.

According to Sediqi, more operations have been conducted to prevent ISIS loyalists expand foothold in Nangarhar districts and other provinces.

The latest remarks by Sediqi came as the loyalists of the terror group received major blows during the recent months in Nangarhar, particularly during the operations of the Afghan and US forces

Posted by:Fred

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