Heavy fighting flares between Taliban and Daesh in Afghanistan

[Zarvan]

Afghan officials said Daesh captured six villages controlled by Taliban in Khogyani and Shirzad districts of Afghanistan, and that fighting has not stopped.

Taliban walk as they celebrate ceasefire in Ghanikhel district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, June 16, 2018. (Reuters Archive)
Afghan Taliban fighters are battling the Daesh terrorist group over control of territory in eastern Afghanistan in some of the heaviest clashes over the past year between the rival militants, officials said on Wednesday.

The fighting erupted on Monday in two districts of the eastern Afghan border province of Nangarhar, when Daesh attacked villages under Taliban control.

"Islamic State [Daesh] fighters have captured six villages in Khogyani and Shirzad districts, but the fighting has not stopped," said Sohrab Qaderi, a member Nangarhar's provincial council.

About 500 families had fled from the fighting, he said.

Casualty figures were not available.

A spokesman for the Taliban, who control more territory than at any point since they were ousted from power nearly 18 years ago, was not available for comment.

Daesh first appeared in eastern Afghanistan in around 2014 and have battled the Taliban as well as government and foreign forces.

The Afghan affiliate of Daesh, sometimes known as Daesh Khorasan, after an old name for the region that includes Afghanistan, has made some inroads into other areas, in the north in particular.

It has also established a reputation for unusual cruelty, even by the standards of the Afghan conflict, and has been behind some of the deadliest attacks in urban centres.

While Nangarhar, on the border with Pakistan, has been a Daesh stronghold, some villages in Khogyani and Shirzad districts have been controlled by the Taliban.

Fleeing villagers said they had to run for their lives.

"I could only rescue my family. We had to leave everything," said Shawkat, 36, a resident of Markikhel village in Shirzad district who sought safety in a neighbouring village.

Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor said, authorities would help the displaced villagers with food and medicine.

In August, more than 150 Daesh terrorists surrendered to the Afghan security forces after they were defeated by the Taliban in the northwestern province of Jawzjan.

The US military estimates there are about 2,000 Daesh terrorists in Afghanistan.

Many are former Taliban. There is scant evidence of direct links with Daesh in the Middle East, where the group has lost territory it once held in Syria and Iraq to Western-backed forces.

https://www.trtworld.com/asia/heavy-fighting-flares-between-taliban-and-daesh-in-afghanistan-26136

 

[war&peace]

Afghan officials said Daesh captured six villages controlled by Taliban in Khogyani and Shirzad districts of Afghanistan, and that fighting has not stopped.

So Afghan officials are acting as spokesperson for Daesh... what else do you need to know ..
InshaAllah Taliban will succeed against these terrorists.

 

[CrazyZ]

As a peace gesture. USA should support the Taliban effort against Daesh with air strikes. Where is the ANA?

 

[Reddington]

As a peace gesture. USA should support the Taliban effort against Daesh with air strikes. Where is the ANA?

Why would USA do airstrikes against Daesh, when they themselves are arming and transporting Daesh from Syria/Iraq to Afghanistan.....
ANA is supporting Daesh overtly while CIA is doing it covertly. That's the only difference.

 

[YeBeWarned]

ISIS is far more brutal than AT , I think Afghan forces should help AT to crush ISIS .

 

[Murgah]

isis never succeed in afghanistan afghan taliban kick their asses easily

 

[khail007]

IMO there is no DAESH in Afghanistan ... just another twist to already complicated situation of foreign intervention in Afghanistan and may be for justification for over stay of US forces in Afghanistan from Afghanistan, Indian and USA POV; if peace dialogue in Afghanistan are going to fail as they presently seem so.

 

[LeGenD]

Why would USA do airstrikes against Daesh, when they themselves are arming and transporting Daesh from Syria/Iraq to Afghanistan.....
ANA is supporting Daesh overtly while CIA is doing it covertly. That's the only difference.

US is not supporting ISIS-K in Afghanistan and transportation of Arab-origin combatants from the Middle East to Afghanistan is not feasible - this is Russian propaganda. Take a look at the pictures of ISIS-K combatants in Afghanistan - mostly Afghans and Uzbek.

ISIS-K is actually a splinter group of Afghan Taliban which broke away from the main group after the death of Mullah Omar over a succession-related dispute and re-branded itself. ISIS-K founder emir Hafiz Saeed Khan insisted on pledging allegiance to the emir of the original ISIL movement Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the Middle East but the remainder of the Afghan Taliban insisted on detachment. ISIS-K is very strong in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.

US-led forces have fought ISIS-K in the Nangarhar province from time-to-time and assassinated numerous members of ISIS-K across Afghanistan but they will not neutralize this group in full until matters with Afghan Taliban are sorted out to their satisfaction. PRESSURE GAME ON.

 

[hasnainfirst]

Afghan officials said Daesh captured six villages controlled by Taliban in Khogyani and Shirzad districts of Afghanistan, and that fighting has not stopped.

Taliban walk as they celebrate ceasefire in Ghanikhel district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, June 16, 2018. (Reuters Archive)
Afghan Taliban fighters are battling the Daesh terrorist group over control of territory in eastern Afghanistan in some of the heaviest clashes over the past year between the rival militants, officials said on Wednesday.

The fighting erupted on Monday in two districts of the eastern Afghan border province of Nangarhar, when Daesh attacked villages under Taliban control.

"Islamic State [Daesh] fighters have captured six villages in Khogyani and Shirzad districts, but the fighting has not stopped," said Sohrab Qaderi, a member Nangarhar's provincial council.

About 500 families had fled from the fighting, he said.

Casualty figures were not available.

A spokesman for the Taliban, who control more territory than at any point since they were ousted from power nearly 18 years ago, was not available for comment.

Daesh first appeared in eastern Afghanistan in around 2014 and have battled the Taliban as well as government and foreign forces.

The Afghan affiliate of Daesh, sometimes known as Daesh Khorasan, after an old name for the region that includes Afghanistan, has made some inroads into other areas, in the north in particular.

It has also established a reputation for unusual cruelty, even by the standards of the Afghan conflict, and has been behind some of the deadliest attacks in urban centres.

While Nangarhar, on the border with Pakistan, has been a Daesh stronghold, some villages in Khogyani and Shirzad districts have been controlled by the Taliban.

Fleeing villagers said they had to run for their lives.

"I could only rescue my family. We had to leave everything," said Shawkat, 36, a resident of Markikhel village in Shirzad district who sought safety in a neighbouring village.

Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor said, authorities would help the displaced villagers with food and medicine.

In August, more than 150 Daesh terrorists surrendered to the Afghan security forces after they were defeated by the Taliban in the northwestern province of Jawzjan.

The US military estimates there are about 2,000 Daesh terrorists in Afghanistan.

Many are former Taliban. There is scant evidence of direct links with Daesh in the Middle East, where the group has lost territory it once held in Syria and Iraq to Western-backed forces.

https://www.trtworld.com/asia/heavy-fighting-flares-between-taliban-and-daesh-in-afghanistan-26136

Dayyum , where did he get that M16 , probaly some dead american

 

[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

The north was captured. Soon the south will be captured too.

 

[Reddington]

US is not supporting ISIS-K in Afghanistan and transportation of Arab-origin combatants from the Middle East to Afghanistan is not feasible - this is Russian propaganda. Take a look at the pictures of ISIS-K combatants in Afghanistan - mostly Afghans and Uzbek.

ISIS-K is actually a splinter group of Afghan Taliban which broke away from the main group after the death of Mullah Omar over a succession-related dispute and re-branded itself. ISIS-K founder emir Hafiz Saeed Khan insisted on pledging allegiance to the emir of the original ISIL movement Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the Middle East but the remainder of the Afghan Taliban insisted on detachment. ISIS-K is very strong in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.

US-led forces have fought ISIS-K in the Nangarhar province from time-to-time and assassinated numerous members of ISIS-K across Afghanistan but they will not neutralize this group in full until matters with Afghan Taliban are sorted out to their satisfaction. PRESSURE GAME ON.

I have seen many videos of ANA transporting Daesh terrorists in helicopters taking them away from fight after they were injured while fighting Afghan Taliban.

You can connect the dots yourself if you research.
I replied to you once on the same topic. Check here.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/tali...tional-government.608764/page-2#post-11292294

They have basically rebranded TTP into Daesh. CIA eliminated its puppy Mullah Fazal Ullah by drone strike back in June as he had outlived his purpose.

 

[LeGenD]

I have seen many videos of ANA transporting Daesh terrorists in helicopters taking them away from fight after they were injured while fighting Afghan Taliban.

You can connect the dots yourself if you research.
I replied to you once on the same topic. Check here.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/tali...tional-government.608764/page-2#post-11292294

They have basically rebranded TTP into Daesh. CIA eliminated their puppy Mullah Fazal Ullah by drone strike back in June as he had outlived his purpose.

The highlighted part of your post is in relation to a battle between Afghan Taliban and ISIS-K in 2018 in which some members of ISIS-K surrendered to Afghan government and some members surrendered to Afghan Taliban, and this event is well-documented. Taking prisoners does not imply culpability.

And you are citing RT as the source of information for US-led forces supplying arms to ISIS-K? RT is Iranian PressTV equivalent and credibility of both is same that is dubious. Fairly good DEBUNK from this source: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...copters-supplying-arms-to-isis-in-afghanistan

ISIS-K encompass former members of Afghan Taliban, TTP and Uzbek militia. And I have explained its origin in brief in my earlier post, based on credible reports.

Yes, it is possible that US and Afghan government are not routing ISIS-K in full capacity in order to maintain pressure on Afghan Taliban for ongoing negotiations.

If US had actually wanted to support and fund ISIS-K movement, it would have run over much of Afghanistan by now (and possibly more) due to its sheer brutality. These type of groups know how to subjugate populations across the board.

 

[Reddington]

20,000-30,000 IS fighters left in Iraq, Syria: UN report

AFP•August 13, 2018

New Zealander Mark Taylor said he spent five years with Islamic State but fled in December and surrendered to Kurdish forces because conditions had become unbearable (AFP Photo/DELIL SOULEIMAN)

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Between 20,000 and 30,000 Islamic State fighters remain in Iraq and Syria despite the jihadist group's defeat and a halt in the flow of foreigners joining its ranks, according to a UN report released Monday.

The report by UN sanctions monitors estimates that between 3,000 and 4,000 IS jihadists were based in Libya while some of the key operatives in the extremist group were being relocated to Afghanistan.


Member-states told the monitors that the total IS membership in Iraq and Syria was "between 20,000 and 30,000 individuals, roughly equally distributed between the two countries."

"Among these is still a significant component of the many thousands of active foreign terrorist fighters," said the report.

The sanctions monitoring team submits independent reports every six months to the Security Council on the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, which are on the UN terrorist blacklist.

IS once controlled large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, but last year it was driven out of Mosul and Raqa -- the twin seats of power of the Sunni extremist group.

By January 2018, IS was confined to small pockets of territory in Syria, although the report said the group "showed greater resilience" in eastern Syria.

IS "is still able to mount attacks inside Syrian territory. It does not fully control any territory in Iraq, but it remains active through sleeper cells" of agents hiding out in the desert and elsewhere, said the report.

Some member-states raised concerns about new IS cells emerging from the densely populated Rukban camp for internally displaced persons in southern Syria, on the border with Jordan, where families of IS fighters are now living.

- Relocating to Afghanistan -

The flow of foreigners leaving IS "remains lower than expected" and no other arena has emerged as a favorite destination for foreign fighters, although "significant numbers have made their way to Afghanistan", said the report.

There are an estimated 3,500-4,500 IS fighters in Afghanistan and those numbers are increasing, according to the report.

The flow of foreign fighters toward IS "has essentially come to a halt," it added.

IS finances are drying up, with one member-state estimating that its total reserves were "in the low hundreds of millions" of US dollars. Some revenue from oil fields in northeastern Syria continues to flow to IS.

IS commands only 250 to 500 members in Yemen, compared to between 6,000 and 7,000 fighters for Al-Qaeda.

In the Sahel, the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara is active mostly at the border between Mali and Niger but has less of a foothold than the Al-Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JMIN).

The Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab dominates in Somalia but the report said that IS "has the strategic intent to expand to central and southern Somalia". Some Somali IS fighters may choose to relocate to Puntland, said the report.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/20-000-3...tml?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw&guccounter=1

@LeGenD

Watch the video from 1:10

 

[Muslim Warrior]

Hope Afghan Taliban shall crush IS and others and shall rule Afghanistan ... Inshallah

 

[LeGenD]

20,000-30,000 IS fighters left in Iraq, Syria: UN report

AFP•August 13, 2018

New Zealander Mark Taylor said he spent five years with Islamic State but fled in December and surrendered to Kurdish forces because conditions had become unbearable (AFP Photo/DELIL SOULEIMAN)

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Between 20,000 and 30,000 Islamic State fighters remain in Iraq and Syria despite the jihadist group's defeat and a halt in the flow of foreigners joining its ranks, according to a UN report released Monday.

The report by UN sanctions monitors estimates that between 3,000 and 4,000 IS jihadists were based in Libya while some of the key operatives in the extremist group were being relocated to Afghanistan.


Member-states told the monitors that the total IS membership in Iraq and Syria was "between 20,000 and 30,000 individuals, roughly equally distributed between the two countries."

"Among these is still a significant component of the many thousands of active foreign terrorist fighters," said the report.

The sanctions monitoring team submits independent reports every six months to the Security Council on the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, which are on the UN terrorist blacklist.

IS once controlled large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, but last year it was driven out of Mosul and Raqa -- the twin seats of power of the Sunni extremist group.

By January 2018, IS was confined to small pockets of territory in Syria, although the report said the group "showed greater resilience" in eastern Syria.

IS "is still able to mount attacks inside Syrian territory. It does not fully control any territory in Iraq, but it remains active through sleeper cells" of agents hiding out in the desert and elsewhere, said the report.

Some member-states raised concerns about new IS cells emerging from the densely populated Rukban camp for internally displaced persons in southern Syria, on the border with Jordan, where families of IS fighters are now living.

- Relocating to Afghanistan -

The flow of foreigners leaving IS "remains lower than expected" and no other arena has emerged as a favorite destination for foreign fighters, although "significant numbers have made their way to Afghanistan", said the report.

There are an estimated 3,500-4,500 IS fighters in Afghanistan and those numbers are increasing, according to the report.

The flow of foreign fighters toward IS "has essentially come to a halt," it added.

IS finances are drying up, with one member-state estimating that its total reserves were "in the low hundreds of millions" of US dollars. Some revenue from oil fields in northeastern Syria continues to flow to IS.

IS commands only 250 to 500 members in Yemen, compared to between 6,000 and 7,000 fighters for Al-Qaeda.

In the Sahel, the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara is active mostly at the border between Mali and Niger but has less of a foothold than the Al-Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JMIN).

The Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab dominates in Somalia but the report said that IS "has the strategic intent to expand to central and southern Somalia". Some Somali IS fighters may choose to relocate to Puntland, said the report.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/20-000-3...tml?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw&guccounter=1

@LeGenD

CONTEXT, my friend. Those are rather vague set-of-disclosures, and not elaborated properly which is understandable since the source is YAHOO NEWS.

ISIL is a multinational organization for sure. Secondly, when ISIL fell apart in the Middle East, scores of its combatants returned to their countries on origin.

I can show you reports of Russians making deals with Syrian rebels and granting them SAFE PASSAGE if they were willing to lay down their arms and stop fighting. I can also show you reports of Pakistan Army having talks with members of TTP and BLA, assuring them of reintegration into the mainstream if they were willing to lay down their arms and stop fighting. Conflicts are never black-and-white in their conduct on the surface - potential deals are expected at times, and SAFE PASSAGES are granted accordingly. Come on now.