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Afghanistan
ISIS recruit child soldiers, force marriages on young women in Afghanistan
2015-09-18
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The loyalists of 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are recruiting child soldiers and force marriages on young women and girls in 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..
province of Afghanistan, it has been reported.

According to the local tribal elders the affiliates of the terror group have also executed hundreds of people including civilians amid ongoing violence in parts of Nangarhar province where brutal clash also continue between the ISIS and Talibs.

Haji Azim Khan, a tribal elder in Achin district, said the terror group has also started forced recruitment of young men and children to fight for the group.

The ISIS loyalists were also going from house to house to identify young women and girls and forcing marriages on them, Khan told The Telegraph, adding that anyone who had previously worked with the government was considered a spy and had been executed.

Frustrated with the growing atrocities of the terror group, the district governor of Achin has called for a public uprising against the loyalists of the terror group.

"Everyone who has a gun, a sword, anything, should fight these cruel people," Muhahid said, warning that the district was badly suffering due to the growing insurgency activities of the terror group.

This comes as the Speaker of the Upper House of the Parliament -- Meshrano Jirga, Fazal Hdi Moslemyar called on First Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum
...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
to lead an operation against the loyalists of the terror group in eastern Nangarhar province, similarly as he led operations in northern provinces.

Speaking during a session of Meshrano Jirga on Sunday, Moslemyar expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
s regarding the deteriorating security situation of Nangarhar and growing activities by Daesh affiliates in this province.

Criticizing the government's lack of attention on deteriorating situation of Nangarhar, Moslemyar called for an immediate action to rescue the residents of this province.

Posted by:Fred

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