...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
turbans (ISIS) in the Mohmand district of eastern 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..
on Sunday night.
National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) special forces clashed with Islamic State turbans in Mohmand district of eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday night, killing the district chief, Mahmood Jan, officials said.
"Mahmood Jan", the ISI-K district chief was killed during the operation.
Sources indicated that the killed individual was a well-known ISIS fighter and the group’s commander, who time to time plotted
A provincial official reported that the Afghan cops arrested three other ISIS members.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon...
Mohammad Saber Tokhi an area representative in the Qalat district was targeted by an IED explosion.
Hekmatullah Kochi, commander of Zabul police told the media, that the incident happened at around 9:00 am this morning in the Chowk area in Qalat city.
Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...took the responsibility for the attack.
This comes despite peace efforts in Afghanistan, just recently Los Angeles times reported that Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said that the war in the country will intensify and the Taliban could threaten major cities unless the Biden administration does not push for an end to the conflict within the coming two months.
LA TIMES quoted Gen. McKenzie saying: "If we withdraw and no deal was made with the Taliban, I think the government of Afghanistan is going to be in for a very stiff fight to retain possession of towns and cities".
President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
and General McKenzie had a meeting on Saturday in Kabul, both discussed the security situation, the grinding of the peace processor, and America’s support to Afghan national defense and security forces.
The war in the country is so complex at a level that Interior Ministry front man Tariq Arian said that according to the MoI investigations, a private media outlet was involved in the transfer of explosives.
He added there are serious questions in this regard and that MoI is working to find the desired answer for it.
Arian did not provide any further details about the media outlet.