...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) group jointly killed scores of civilians in a village in Afghanistan, officials claimed on Monday.
If confirmed, Saturday's attack would highlight rare cooperation between the gangs.
Fighters killed more than 50 men, women and kiddies in the remote Sayad district of northern Sar-e Pul province after overrunning government-backed fighters of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) in a 48-hour battle, according to local officials.
"It was a joint operation by ISIS and Taliban fighters," Zabihullah Amani, front man for the provincial governor, told AFP on Monday. "They had recruited forces from other provinces of the country and attacked Mirzawalang village."
The front man alleged that dozens of Taliban and ISIS fighters under the command of Sher Mohammad Ghazanfar, a local Taliban Überstürmbannführer who Amani claims pledged allegiance to ISIS, launched a coordinated attack on the area on Thursday.
"The fighters overran the area, and it led to the massacre of innocent and defenceless civilians," he said.
Most of those killed were shot, but some had their heads chopped off, Amani said.
Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..on Sunday condemned the killings as a "war crime".