[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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group is attempting to establish a caliphate inside Afghanistan, the top US commander in Afghanistan has said.
General John Nicholson who is also in command of the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
-led Resolute Support Mission (RSM) in Afghanistan has said the majority of the ISIS fighters in Afghanistan are foreigners.
"Right now we see them very focused on trying to establish their caliphate, the Khorasan caliphate, inside Afghanistan," General Nicholson told NBC News.
He said the push is "principally a non-Afghan movement", adding that the U.S. has seen imported muscle, particularly Uzbeks from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, joining the Islamic State Khorasan, or IS-K.
Gen. Nicholson further addded that the U.S. also sees many Pak Pashtun from the Pak Taliban who joined IS-K moving into Afghanistan to fight.
According to Gen. Nicholson, the IS-K is "completely rejected by the Afghan people," and explained that the broader ISIS philosophy is "the antithesis of Afghan culture."
"With our Afghan partners, we’ve been able to reduce that territory significantly and inflict heavy casualties on them to include killing their leaders," he said.
Both the Afghan forces and the US forces in Afghanistan are conducting regular raids against the Taliban snuffies and ISIS loyalist in the districts where they are conducting insurgency activities.
The US forces increased