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Afghan officials: ISIS expands presence in restive south
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The ISIS group, which has been building a presence in Afghanistan for more than a year, has established a recruitment and training camp in a restive southern province bordering Pakistain, Afghan officials said.Last year, hundreds of holy warriors fled to Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistain, where the military launched a campaign to clear bully boyz from the lawless tribal regions in the country’s north. Among them were members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who joined forces with local Taliban fighters to attack northern Afghan cities such as Kunduz, which was briefly overrun in September. The Pak military campaign also caused around 400 families loyal to the ISIS group to flee to Afghanistan, Afghan authorities said. The families, many of them Arabs and Chechens, settled in the southern province of Zabul, in the district of Khak-e-Afghan, a former Taliban stronghold with a history of holy warrior violence that has made it a no-go area for Afghan cops. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-15 |
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