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2019-08-20 Afghanistan
The rise of the militant Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan
[DAWN] A suicide kaboom at a wedding party in Kabul claimed by a local affiliate of the Death Eater Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) group has renewed fears about the growing threat posed by its thousands of fighters, as well as their ability to plot global attacks from a stronghold in the forbidding mountains of northeastern Afghanistan.

The attack came as the Afghan Taliban

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Posted by Fred 2019-08-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ]  Top
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