[AnNahar] Self-proclaimed fighters from 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group have for the first time launched coordinated attacks on police checkpoints in an eastern Afghan province, officials said Sunday.
The raids on eight to 10 police posts began early Sunday, Haji Ghalib, governor of Achin district in 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, told AFP, giving no casualty figures.
"This is the first time that Daesh fighters have launched coordinated attacks on police checkpoints in Nangarhar," he said.
Daesh is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State (IS) group, which controls wide swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
The attacks in Achin were confirmed by the border police commander in eastern Afghanistan, Mohammad Ayoub Hussainkhail.
They came a day after a U.N. report warned that IS was making inroads in Afghanistan, winning over a growing number of sympathizers and recruiting followers in 25 of the country's 34 provinces.
Afghan cops told U.N. sanctions monitors that about 10 percent of the Taliban insurgency are IS sympathizers, according to the report by the U.N.'s Al-Qaeda monitoring team.
The jihadist group has been trying to establish itself in Afghanistan and challenging the Taliban on their own turf.
Some Taliban bully boys, particularly in the restive eastern provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar, have adopted the IS flag to rebrand themselves as a more lethal force as NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
combat troops depart after 14 years of war.