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Afghanistan
15 Afghan Taliban killed in attack by suspected IS rivals
2018-07-18
[DAWN] Suspected fighters from the Lion of Islam 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....
 (IS) group attacked Talibs attending a funeral in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday and killed at least 15 in the latest violence between the rival groups, officials said.

Another five Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 were maimed in the attack on a house in Sayad district in Sari Pul province, the provincial police chief Abdul Qayum Baqizoi told AFP. A Taliban Überstürmbannführer was among the dead, Baqizoi added.

The attackers, who were armed with guns and grenades, fled the area.

The Sari Pul governor's front man Zabiullah Amani confirmed the corpse count.

"ISIS and Taliban have been fighting each other for more than two months in (neighbouring) Jowzjan and Sari Pul, killing hundreds on both sides," Amani said, using the Arabic acronym for IS.

The Taliban has not commented on the attack. IS did not immediately claim responsibility.

IS first emerged in Afghanistan in 2014, overrunning large parts of the eastern provinces of 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..
 and Kunar near the border with Pakistain, where it engaged in a pie fight with the Taliban.
Khaama Press adds:
A front man for the 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan military in the North Mohammad Hanif Rezaye said a number of Talibs had participated in the funeral ceremony of a Taliban leader Shir Mohammad Ghazanfar when a ISIS jacket wallah detonated his explosives.

He said the Taliban leader was killed during the festivities with the ISIS bandidos Death Eaters on Monday and one of his brothers was also killed in today’s attack.

According to Rezayee, at least fifteen bandidos Death Eaters were killed in the attack and at least three others have sustaiend injuries. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
 a front man for the provincial government said at least fifteen bandidos Death Eaters were killed and at least five others were maimed in the attack. In the meantime, a source in the provincial security commandment, said at least twenty two people were killed in the attack.
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