If the headchoppers from Syria are able to make their way to Afghanistan, they have new jihadistan to grow and re arm....right next to Iran’s borders.
Let’s hope this doesn’t happen.
Compared to Syria at the height of the civil war, Afghanistan presents only one of the factors fostering the development of this group: weak state institutions. Other than this, none of Afghanistan's neighbours would let volunteers cross into Afghanistan nor let them establish trans-border supply lines, let alone support them covertly in any fashion - as opposed to what happened in Syria.
Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, China and Russia (the latter not being a direct neighbour but they would lend a helping hand), plus local Tajik forces close to Iran, Hazaras including Fatemiyoun and the Taliban all could and should join hands to crush "I"SIS.
The only local players I could see secretly facilitating the criminal actions of "I"SIS would be NATO collaborators (including possible infiltrators within the Taliban).
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Not sure who is responsible yet, could be ISIS-K, could be but unlikely to be Taliban involvement.
Why? "I"SIS claimed responsibility and the Taliban have no reason to bomb the airport right after they took power.
In fact, the cui bono question would rather point to the US regime / deep state and its NATO vassals as hypothetical additional culprits. Washington would be likely to seek to destabilize Afghanistan to put pressure on Iran and China, and also Pakistan. After occupying Afghanistan for 20 years, the US regime will remain inactive while watching its main opponents, that is Iran, China and Russia, build constructive and mutually beneficial ties with Afghanistan. I wouldn't dwell too much on the killed American soldiers in this regard, to the US deep state and ruling oligarchy the lives of their own troops (limited numbers at that) are surely expendable in pursuit of their imperial goals.
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Rest in peace to the innocent people. Occupiers deserve death.
I wonder who will be hit now? They are talking about some imaginary ISIS-K version.
Imaginary in what sense? Because it's been some time since this grouplet made its appearance. It recruits mostly from foreign terrorists present in Afghanistan (Uzbeks, Uyghurs etc) and radical factions of the Taliban which broke with the movement and turned their guns on it. Reinforcement by some terrorists from the Syrian and Iraqi theaters flown in by NATO is a possibility.
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Or let Talibs take care of them, as they're the same thing as them or Afghanistan is too much of a mess for anyone to get involved with
The Taliban can be helped without sending any boots on the ground. Through intelligence, logistics, arms, training, cross-border drone and missile strikes against "I"SIS, and so on.
